Defence Executive

Are you an experienced Administrative Assistant? Do you have Legal experience? Are you looking for a new opportunity whereby you can learn and develop? If you’ve answered yes, then you could be the right person to join the Defence Executive team in our Worthing office, BN11 1QP.

**What you can expect as an Defence Executive**:

- Competitive Starting Salary
- Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
- Permanent Contract
- Work from our Worthing office (Hybrid Working)

Not only are we offering a competitive salary and a fantastic bonus scheme, you’ll also be entitled to loads of great benefits including, discount and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops and private health insurance, plus much more.

As our new Defence Executive, you will be responsible for supporting the business’ team of lawyers dealing primarily with defended cases, preparing legal documentation, dealing with specific customer and third-party queries, understanding county court documentation and carrying out ad hoc legal projects.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Ensure all defence post and defences received via MCOL are noted appropriately on system and dealt with in a timely manner
- Deal with specific incoming defence post and respond appropriately within service level of one week
- To manage and take responsibility for own defence case files ensuring compliance with court orders and preparing cases for hearings
- To negotiate settlements and draft Tomlin Orders where appropriate
- To understand and draft legal documentation, understand the county court processes and be familiar with the relevant parts of the CPR court rules
- Correspond with defendants, the courts, solicitors' firms and other third parties
- Instruct LPC to act on our behalf at court hearings and prepare legal documentation for service
- Keep updated with the law and any changes via webinars and seminars
- Carry out legal research where required
- Provide assistance on projects where required
- Ensure 100% compliance
- Any other task deemed appropriate by the lawyers
- Look to continually improve own and team performance, putting forward improvement ideas in a constructive manner
- Assist with disputes received about customer’s accounts
- To meet KPI’s set in accordance with the 4C’s

**We are looking for someone with**:

- Experience of an administrative role in a process driven environment
- Experience of working in a legal environment
- Ability to manage own time and varying workloads
- Works independently with mínimal supervision
- Uses own initiative
- Ability to make decisions quickly and confidently
- Quality focused and able to maintain high levels of accuracy.
- Self-motivated
- Good communication skills - both written (Keyboard / Typing) and verbal
- Willingness to learn

**What happens next?**

**About Us**:
Mortimer Clarke Solicitors (MCS) is a specialist litigation law firm. We have been in business since 2007 and now employ over 130 people at our office in Worthing, West Sussex.

We are part of the Cabot Credit Management Group, which is a European market leader in credit management services.

We have won many industry awards and are proud to be recognised as an expert in our field.

We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority. We maintain high regulatory standards and take genuine pride in the way we work. Find out more here.
- We play an active role in the community, including providing our support for Chestnut Tree House, a wonderful local charity. In 2023, some of our colleagues abseiled down Arundel Castle’s 180ft tower in aid of the charity._
- Get in touch so we can tell you more about us, and we can get to know you._
- Diversity and inclusion_ _are very important to us and we value diverse talent. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone._