Solicitor - Motor Injury

DAC Beachcroft LLP; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Discounted gym membership

ESG involvement

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft LLP is seeking a Solicitor to join its Motor Injury team in Belfast. You will handle a spectrum of motor injury, credit hire and damage cases and contribute to the development of your legal career within a national practice that advises insurers and corporate clients.

The team handles defendant litigation across various complexities, with opportunities to work on pre-emptive advice, disputes and related claims, while maintaining a focus on client service and professional

Qualifications

• Solicitor with keen interest and prior experience in motor injury, credit hire and damage cases.

Responsibilities

• Run and assist with a varied caseload of motor injury, credit hire and damage cases with appropriate supervision.
• Hit, maintain and apply consistent targets for financial performance, realisation rates, settlement rate and average claim spend.
• Support marketing and business development within the team, including attending events and client training.
• Assume responsibility for quality control and timely management reporting on own caseload.
• Maintain awareness of firm procedures and strategy and develop technical knowledge through training.

Skills

Motor injury experience

Credit hire knowledge

Case management

Client communication

Job description

Solicitor - Motor Injury

Application Deadline: 28 August 2026

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

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Belfast

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

The purpose of this role is to run and assist with a case load of motor injury, credit hire and damage cases. Day to day responsibilities will include:

• 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!