Junior Litigator
Department: Claims Management
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Bolton
Description
Ready to take your legal career to the next level? If so we are seeking a Junior Litigator to join our Recoveries Team.
The purpose of the role is to effectively manage a portfolio of Delegated (DA) litigated cases where no defence has been received to ensure that damages and costs are recovered and in appropriate cases judgment is requested in a timely manner and if necessary referred to enforcement. In addition there will be a small allocation of liability admitted vehicle damage only claims, to allow for training in respect of handling defended claims and a progression route therein.
Key Accountabilities
- Organising, prioritising and handling own workload in line with standard operating procedures to ensure that critical dates are met and KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved
- Effective management of the litigation process to ensure KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved:
- Adhering to all Court deadlines
- Drafting of court documents
- Applying for judgment where applicable
- Negotiation of quantum and settlement on appropriate cases
- Ensuring prompt payment of damages and costs by the Defendant
- Instructing enforcement
- Effective use of the case management system to ensure:
- Reserving and all other key information is accurate and updated in a timely manner
- Critical dates are met
- All actions/strategies are documented by way of a file note
- All documents in the history are clearly labelled
- All relevant client MI populated to ensure case position correct in data exchanged
- Delivering quality work, as a minimum meeting audit benchmark standards
- Driving own personal development
- Contributes to team effort by working collaboratively to ensure that team targets are achieved and by positively contributing to team morale
Working Hours
35 hours per week
Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch
Primary location for this role is 2, The Parklands, Bolton
Role is a hybrid/remote role with attendance in the Bolton office only compulsory on a Tuesday
Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Experience of working in a legal environment or from a legal academic background
- Preferable experience of quantum negotiations or knowledge of tort law
- Demonstrate experience of and the ability to:
- Work to set deadlines
- Deal with calls and enquiries from customers, suppliers and/or the public
- Organise and prioritise their workload using a cases management system
- Work as part of a team
- IT literate: proficient in use of Microsoft Office packages (Excel and Word)
- Excellent listening and verbal communication skills
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to take constructive feedback and set personal goals for continuous improvement.
Values:
Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our four values are at the heart of everything we do;
Keoghs values
We are connected
We are Dynamic
We are Innovative
We succeed together
Benefits
- Davies incentive Plan
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service(opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death In Service – after 1 years’ service
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
*after successfully completing probation