Solicitor - Serious Injury

TN United Kingdom; Chichester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated solicitor to join their Serious Injury team. This role offers the chance to provide exceptional legal advice while managing your own caseload and mentoring junior team members. You'll engage in business development to enhance the team's profile and contribute to area meetings. With a supportive environment and a commitment to well-being, this position is perfect for those passionate about personal injury law and eager to make a difference in clients' lives. Join a company that values integrity, efficiency, and community engagement.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Generous and flexible pension schemes

Volunteering days

Health membership with refunds on medical services

Qualifications

• 1-5 years PQE in Serious Injury required.
• Current Practising Certificate is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional legal advice to clients in Serious Injury cases.
• Manage your own caseload and assist senior team members.

Skills

Personal Injury Law

Business Development

Client Management

Legal Advice

Education

Current Practising Certificate

PQE in Serious Injury

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You’ll work closely with clients, providing them with exceptional legal advice to achieve the best possible resolution. You’ll be a key player in the Serious Injury team, regularly contributing to area meetings and ensuring team objectives are met. As an experienced solicitor within Serious Injury, you’ll have the opportunity to train and mentor others in your team, with support and direction to help you do this.

• Take instructions from clients and give legal advice.
• Manage your own caseload while assisting Partners and senior team members on high-value cases.
• Review cases and other relevant matters with your supervisor to ensure quality legal advice is provided.

About You

• 1-5 years PQE in Serious Injury
• Good commercial awareness, and the confidence and willingness to actively engage in business development to continue to build the team’s profile
• Current Practising Certificate
• Ambition, energy and enthusiasm for Personal Injury Law
• Empathy and compassion to help guide our clients through challenging personal circumstances
• A friendly, enthusiastic and can-do approach

Our Values

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35 hours of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.