Solicitor - Serious Injury

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced solicitor to join their Serious Injury team. In this role, you'll provide exceptional legal advice, manage your own caseload, and mentor junior team members. With a strong focus on client care, you'll engage in business development to enhance the team's profile. The firm values integrity, innovation, and a supportive workplace culture, offering generous benefits including flexible working options and volunteering days. If you're passionate about Personal Injury Law and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Generous pension schemes

Volunteering days

Westfield Health membership

Flexible working options

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and manage your own caseload.
• Assist Partners on high-value cases and review with supervisors.

Skills

Personal Injury Law

Client Management

Business Development

Empathy

Commercial Awareness

Education

Current Practising Certificate

1-5 years 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

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

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 35hrs 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.