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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.
Our Professional & Commercial Risk team in Leeds is one of the largest groups in the north. It advises insurers and professionals when faced with the threat of a negligence claim, acting on numerous high value and sensitive claims for clients throughout the UK, involving both 'traditional', i.e. accountants, architects, brokers, engineers, surveyors, solicitors, etc, and the 'emerging', i.e. design / IT / media / recruitment consultants, etc, professions. The team is particularly experienced in the deployment of alternative dispute resolution techniques, including mediation and arbitration.
Core Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities will be to assist the specialist, partner led, surveyor team throughout the initial set up, investigation and client advice phases of claims and, thereafter, to provide support to the team both regarding the ongoing handling of cases and wider Management Information capture and use in marketing initiatives.
This is a challenging and interesting role and you will be working with the team in the investigation and assessment of claims upon receipt of instructions and as cases progress. You will assist and support the team through preparing and maintaining records, responding to ad hoc requests for information from clients as well as research and documents preparation.
Your day to day role will entail complying with the required standards for internal procedures e.g. financial management of files, billing regimes etc as well as the specific requirements of individual clients. Complying with the required standards for internal procedures e.g. financial management of files, billing regimes etc as well as the specific requirements of individual clients.
Handling confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols.
Key Skills
You will be of graduate calibre in law or a law related subject. Previous experience of working as a paralegal or similar would be advantageous.
As you'll be working on our systems, IT literacy is important and you'll have working knowledge of Word and Excel and good keyboard skills.
It is equally important that you are client focused with an ability to build strong relationships with client and third party contacts at all levels. Confidence communication skills both orally and in writing are of great importance within the role too.
In order to succeed within this role you will be able to work to deadlines, prioritise own workload effectively under pressure and manage conflicting priorities and therefore a strength in organisation and planning is vital. You will have a proactive, energetic and tenacious approach to identifying issues and solving problems. Additionally you will need to be quality and customer service oriented with a concern for accuracy and an eye for detail.
A collegiate and team approach to sharing knowledge is essential as you will be working with colleagues across locations, as is the ability to progress tasks using your own initiative (seeking guidance and input from others where appropriate).
You are committed and enthusiastic with a professional and flexible attitude to work.
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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