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Job Title: NQ Solicitor
Practice Area: Property Risk Solutions - Costs
Location: Birmingham
Job Reference: 2915
Overview of Practice Area/Background
DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate.
We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients' individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients' expectations.
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings.
In 2009 we achieved certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and in 2011 we were awarded ISO27001 certification for our information security procedures. We are the largest law firm in the country to obtain a silver Investors in People award. The firm is committed to supporting the communities in which we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and via structured programmes including those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust.
The Costs Unit obtains work directly from insurers and indirectly from insurers via instructions to the firm's injury and property damage sub-groups, once damages are settled.
The Costs Unit comprises several distinct teams specialising in a specific area of costs (pre-litigation/post litigation challenges and recovery). The Costs Unit focuses on driving through our insurer clients' costs strategy and building and strengthening client relationships. Team members aim to build strong links and establish good rapport with the clients and claims handlers, which ensures that team members understand the clients businesses and exceed their expectations.
The Birmingham office is looking for bright and confident individuals with good communication skills to join the costs recovery team, focussing on recovery of costs for our CCFA property team and injury risk team.
Core Responsibilities
After initial training you will have responsibility of running your own case load of costs matters, setting strategy on these and negotiating settlement/running to detailed assessment by the Court. Once your experience increases you will begin to run more complex and higher value cases.
You will build relationships with internal client contacts at all levels and feedback to the general defendant and recovery fee earners on their time recording techniques to ensure that all fee earners are property recording time.
You will contribute to knowledge sharing within the Cost team and internal candidates. As well as conducting work in line with client protocols, exceeding Cost Unit benchmarks and providing timely and accurate management information and billing, whilst handling confidential information in line with the firms security protocols.
Key Skills
The team are looking for a Newly Qualified Solicitor, previous experience of costs is essential as is Civil Litigation experience.
Other requirements include:
Application Details
DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV to us. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
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