Senior Solicitor

2 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Energis Recruitment Ltd Full time

Lead – Litigation Solicitor, Belfast, Up to £65k plus excellent benefits package. Our client is a large National law firm based in Belfast. They are the leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector.

They currently have a senior Litigation role available. This role is an opportunity to develop a technical leadership role, leading a small client-focused team of lawyers.

You will handle a caseload of predominantly High Court cases, have direct responsibility for a small team of handlers and assistants, and be responsible for the technical quality of the work produced by your team, undertaking any supervision and peer reviews required.

You will be required to oversee and lead the firms Fraud Team. You will be responsible for growing the team’s capabilities, building and maintaining strong relationships with both established and new clients, and driving business development efforts to ensure the continued success and expansion of the Fraud Team.

Aside from technical excellence and attracting work, a key part of the role is the leadership, motivation, engagement and technical development of those team members. The role also includes the need to interface with sophisticated senior claims handlers in long-standing insurance clients and responsibility for enhancing and developing Keoghs profile as well as your own as you work towards attracting more work in your own right.

Having established strong relationships with existing clients, you will continue to attract work in order to grow and develop your team.

The Lead Lawyer will be responsible for ensuring through peer review, training and supervision that robust, technical strategies are employed across all counter-fraud matters as well as ensuring that all KYO strategies understood and followed throughout the team. The Lead Lawyer will be pivotal in feeding back outcomes to the Partners and key client contacts.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the handlers in delivering the best possible outcome for clients on counter-fraud cases whilst also ensuring cases are progressed in a commercially sound and economical manner.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic excellence:

  • Devising and implementing case strategies that deliver the best possible outcome for clients.
  • Thorough consideration of evidence throughout the life of the case, considering the impact on case strategy.
  • Identifying and escalating any cases appropriate for complex consideration and referral.
  • To ensure that all counter-fraud cases are flagged appropriately on Tracker so that accurate MI is captured for the following:

- The number of fraud instructions from clients

- The number of cases that are converted to fraud

- The type of fraud that we’re seeing

- Fraud savings

Technical Excellence:

  • Supervision and peer review of all handlers in your team.
  • Make full use of the firm’s Case Management System in progressing files from receipt to closure.
  • Triaging and allocating new files to handlers with appropriate expertise.
  • Delegate appropriate work to team members and ensuring assistants have enough of the appropriate work to achieve chargeable hours targets.
  • To ensure compliance with the LSNI code of conduct.


Client excellence:

  • Building and developing partnerships with clients to deliver their strategic goals.
  • Ensuring maximum customer satisfaction on all cases dealt with in your team.
  • Ensuring compliance with all internal and client SLA’s
  • Ensuring accurate and timely completion of all client and internal MI
  • Achieve both client and internal KPIs
  • Ensuring that all bills are delivered accurately and in accordance with client SLA’s.
  • Improve fraud kick out rates
  • Increase the profile of the Northern Ireland Counter-Fraud team
  • Oversee delivery of quarterly counter-fraud newsletter to clients


Leadership:

  • Leadership, motivation, engagement and technical development of the team to ensure achievement of objectives.
  • Taking responsibility for identifying any issues which arise around wellbeing or performance and addressing those issues with support from the Team Leader.
  • Regular communication with the team, including but not limited to setting objectives and personal development plans, checking in monthly to confirm they are on track both in terms of performance and technical progress, ongoing conversations and performance reviews.
  • As you grow and develop your team, contributing to the recruitment and probation process.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious litigation solicitor to join a successful law firm where career advancement is encouraged.

For more details please email your cv in confidence through the link above. For a confidential discussion please call Orla Milligan. Contact details through the link above.

By applying for this role you are consenting to Energis Recruitment holding your details for a period of 12 months to be considered for other roles. As a candidate you have the right to consent or object to this

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