Temporary Junior Litigation Lawyer

SPE Travelers Management, LTD; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Travelers Europe is seeking a highly skilled lawyer to handle insurance litigation, including professional indemnity and financial risk cases, within a hybrid work model. The ideal candidate will be fully qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales (or as a chartered legal executive or barrister) and possess strong advocacy and client service abilities.

You will manage a varied caseload, supervise paralegals, and collaborate with the Head of Legal Practice to advance complex litigation

Responsibilities

• Litigates cases to verdict with strong trial skills.

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category Legal Target Openings 1

What Is the Opportunity?

Responsible for providing high quality and cost-effective legal representation. Demonstrates superior knowledge and expertise in the litigation process and provides excellent client service as part of a legal team. Responsible for independent, aggressive case handling with a resolution management focus. May act as a team lead for Paralegals. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion.

What Will You Do?

• Litigates cases to verdict, demonstrating superior use of trial skills and techniques.
• Ability to independently handle a full to moderate caseload with moderate level of severity and complexity from case inception through to trial/resolution.
• Works under the guidance of the Head of Legal Practice in litigating complex and high exposure files.
• Conducts legal research as necessitated and supervises research projects delegated to Paralegals and Legal Secretaries.
• Independently drafts statements of case, interim motions, briefs, disclosure requests and other court documents.
• Attends court events and other appointments independently.
• Learns and understands client expectations in addition to the key department business goals of Travelers Legal and assists in meeting those goals.
• Handles and actively seeks opportunities to become involved in special projects and on committees.
• Provides recommendations and case analysis to business partners on appropriate file handling strategy.
• Integrates legal support staff into the case handling process.
• Builds and maintains superior internal and external client relationships.
• Completes all required administrative tasks including time reporting, closed cases, reports and other materials appropriate to performance of duties.
• Effectively makes use of technology and automation in the practice of law.
• Adheres to all standards of excellence in file management.
• Strictly adheres to the principles, outcomes and indicative behaviours of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Code of Conduct.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Experience in insurance litigation is highly desirable.
• Experience in handling professional indemnity and financial risks cases is desired.
• Advanced interpersonal skills.
• Persuasive legal writing skills and oral advocacy skills.
• Ability to clearly and succinctly articulate position.
• Advanced presentation skills.
• Ability to handle and analyse legal issues independently and with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and others.
• Demonstrates desire to acquire effective trial skills with increased litigation complexity.
• Demonstrates superior legal acumen.
• Demonstrates personal commitment to professional development.
• Continued development of technical skills with the goal of handling the higher complexity/exposure cases.
• Personal integrity and adherence to a high degree of professionalism and ethical competency.
• Intermediate research skills.
• Intermediate negotiation skills.
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload.
• Decision making and problem solving abilities.
• Sense of urgency/responsiveness.
• Fully qualified solicitor in England and Wales holding a valid and in-force practicing certificate issued by the SRA.
• Alternatively fully qualified chartered legal executive or barrister.

What is a Must Have?

• University degree.
• Fully qualified solicitor, chartered legal executive or barrister in England and Wales.
• Some Post Qualification Experience (PQE).

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.

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