Litigation - Health Care - Defense Attorney in Birmingham, City and Borough of Birmingham

Law Firm

Birmingham, City and Borough of Birmingham

Litigation - Health Care - Defense Attorney in Birmingham, City and Borough of Birmingham

Attorney

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What is the salary for this role?

The salary for this role is competitive and commensurate with experience.



# Associate - Clinical Negligence - Birmingham, Nottingham or Manchester

**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is a UK & I based law firm with an international reach and offices in Birmingham, Dublin, Exeter, London, Manchester and Nottingham. Our sectors include: health; real estate and construction; education; energy and infrastructure; financial services; government; insurance; manufacturing and industrials; and retail, consumer and logistics.

We are looking for an Associate - Health Advisory & Litigation to join our Clinical Negligence team based in Birmingham, Manchester or Nottingham.

## Key Responsibilities

* Deliver exceptional client service, including proactive, strategic and commercial management of claims
* Manage your own caseload including supporting on high value and complex claims in accordance with client requirements and SLAs
* Delegation and supervision of tasks to more junior lawyers where appropriate
* Provide responsive secondment support to key clients – remotely and on site
* Undertake legal research, advising on the implications of new statutes, regulations, directives and case law
* Undertake business development activities, including the planning and delivery of relevant seminar and training programmes in person and online

## Person Specification

To be successful in this role you must have the following technical skills and experience:

* Strong academic background
* Familiarity with IT (Microsoft Office 2010), and ideally with experience of appropriate case management systems
* Familiarity with online and library research facilities
* Attention to detail with the ability to explain/advise clients on complex technical aspects of process and procedure
* Clinical negligence experience – defendant/claimant or catastrophic personal injury experience
* Experience in inquest or healthcare advisory work an advantage

In addition, you should be:

* Flexible, ambitious, focused and results oriented
* Enthusiastic team player with strong inter-personal skills
* Keen to take responsibility and develop the business
* Good organisational skills and able to manage time effectively
* Committed to recording time promptly; meeting financial goals with track record in achieving targets including minimum six and a half hours chargeable time each day

## Working Practice

At **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***., the firm operates a set of core principles that guides our working practice. It’s called ‘One Firm, Wherever You Are’.

You might have enjoyed working from home and would like to split your time between there and the office/ other work locations. Others may be eager to return to the office on a more regular basis. We believe that a regular level of in-person contact is an important way to build connections with your colleagues, enhancing knowledge and idea sharing and enabling all of us to benefit from the vibrant office culture **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. has to offer.

Our expectation is that, on average, you’ll work from home for no more than three days per week, with the remainder of your time either spent with your colleagues in the office or working from other locations as work demands dictate, . courts, client offices, conferences etc. This is an average expectation over time and we know that there will be variations from week to week. Equally, there will be individual circumstances in which a different pattern of work is needed, for example as an agreed reasonable adjustment for colleagues with a disability or long-term medical condition.

We believe this approach:

* fits with our values and personality;
* will enhance our performance through greater flexibility;
* advances our ambitions as an inclusive employer – helping you better balance work and family/life commitments;
* offers opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint (travel, office services etc.), a key ambition underpinning our corporate sustainability plan

## Salary

The salary for this role is competitive and commensurate with experience.