Solicitor - Motor Injury

DAC Beachcroft; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Gym membership discount

Career progression funding

Social events (in person and remote)

ESG activities involvement

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft in Belfast is seeking a Solicitor to join our Motor team, handling motor injury, credit hire and damage cases and to develop their career with us.

We advise insurers and corporate clients in defence of claims of all values and complexities. The national team handles defendant litigation across catastrophic injury, clinical negligence, motor, casualty, disease, product, professional negligence and health and safety, with growing pre-emptive advisory work.

Qualifications

• Solicitor with interest/experience in motor injury, credit hire and damage cases.
• Commercial perspective on legal issues with focus on service quality.
• Clear and concise communicator, both verbal and written.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise own workload.
• Ability to work independently and with supervisors.
• Team player with flexible, self-motivated approach.
• Alignment with firm’s Cultural Principles: Clear, Creative, Determined, Supportive.

Responsibilities

• Handle varied pre-litigation and litigated motor injury and related cases with supervision.
• Aim for strong financial performance: realisation and settlement rates.
• Support marketing and business development within the team.
• Ensure quality control and timely management reporting on own caseload.
• Maintain awareness of firm procedures and strategies.
• Develop technical knowledge through training and publications.
• Handle confidential information per data security protocols.

Skills

Motor injury

Credit hire

Legal communication

Workload prioritisation

Team collaboration

Cultural alignment

Job description

Department: CSG - Casualty (EL/PL / Complex Injury / Disease / Fraud / Motor Injury / Vehicle Hire and Damage)

Location: Belfast

Application Deadline: 28 August 2026

Description

We are looking for a Solicitor to join our Motor team, handling all types of motor injury, credit hire and damage cases and develop their career with us.

We advise insurers and corporate clients in their defence of claims of all values, types and complexity. Our National team whose clients are a mix of leading names in the insurance industry as well as household name corporates, deal with all aspects of defendant litigation, to include catastrophic injury, clinical negligence, motor, casualty, disease, product, professional negligence and health and safety. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Running and assisting with a varied case load of pre-litigation and litigated work with the appropriate levels of supervision. These will include cases where liability is disputed and will also include attending Court / Counsel.
• Hit, maintain and apply a consistent approach to all individual targets of financial performance, realisation rates, settlement rate and average claim spend
• Support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training
• Assume responsibility for quality control and benchmark compliance on own caseload, including accuracy and timeliness of management reporting and information.
• Maintain an awareness of firm's procedures and strategies
• Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications
• Handling confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• A Solicitor with a keen interest and enthusiasm for and ideally, prior experience in, motor injury, credit hire and damage cases.
• Able to adopt a commercial perspective to legal issues with a concern for quality of service
• A confident communicator who can communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form
• Excellent organisational skills and able to effectively prioritise and manage own workload
• Detail conscious and able to produce work to a high standard.
• Able to work on own initiative as well as to work with and learn from supervisors and other members of the department
• A team player with a flexible and self-motivated approach
• Demonstrates alignment with the Firm's Cultural Principles (Clear, Creative, Determined and Supportive).

Job Benefits

• High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://jobs.dacbeachcroft.com/whats-in-it-for-you/
• A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
• Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
• In person and remote social events
• Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies

DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: [e-mail] or [e-mail]