Assistant Lawyer

We are looking to recruit a qualified lawyer to join our Crime & Regulatory team in Coventry. The role will be to assist a Lead Lawyer dealing with regulatory cases and inquest work. The team predominately deal with health & safety, food, fire, environmental and motor crime cases.
This is a technical and client-facing role for a well-rounded lawyer, so you will have a keen interest in building client relationships through the delivery of training and mentoring as well as in delivering first class legal solutions to complex problems.
The role would suit a Newly Qualified who had 1 or 2 seats in regulatory work.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Review and analysis of prosecution evidence and considering implications for lay client/company
- Drafting statements of clients /witnesses
- Review of client’s evidence - obtaining, collating, indexing, cross-referencing with own statements and Prosecution's statements, summarising evidence for lead file handlers
- Liaising with Court, Coroner's Office and CQC/Police/HSE or relevant regulator
- Liaising with experts - instructing own experts, summarising expert evidence, serving reports
- Serving Defence case statements, sentencing bundles and mitigation bundles
- Drafting written submissions, following liaison with lay client/corporate client
- Liaising with clients re Prosecution's case and disclosure required
- Reviewing transcripts of evidence
- Organising and attending conferences & meetings, drafting note of discussion and following agreed strategy following partner’s strategy
- Attendance / representation at interview under cautions
- Attendance behind Counsel for trials & inquests - drafting notes of evidence, outcome and sentencing
- Arranges meetings, conferences, site visits, expert appointments
- Chase for transcripts and disclosure, collating the evidence
- Review of medical records, post mortem reports and CCTV footage
- Attending site, taking photos and drafting basic statements
- Research into relevant HSE guidelines
- Research into clients - corporate structure, their procedures, risk assessments, documents
- Collating witness availability
- Preparation of bundles for hearings, serving bundles
- To ensure compliance with the SRA standards & regulations

**Experience, Skills and Qualifications**
- A Solicitor with regulatory or inquest experience, whether that is during their training contract or upon qualification.
- An ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Ability to work with case management systems
- The personal skills to deal with clients in a sensitive manner given the context within which they find themselves.
- Good telephone and communication skills with people at all levels inside and outside the business
- Calm under pressure
- Self-confidence, with good literacy and IT skills
- Good team worker with the flexibility to do what is required to get a result and ensure client service levels are met
- Ability to work effectively within the Keoghs Shared Values framework
- Have a full driving licence - being able to travel easily is a required

**Contract Type**
- Permanent

**Area**
- Crime and Regulatory

**Sub Area**
- Crime and Regulatory Coventry

**Office**
- Keoghs Coventry Compton Court

**Closing Date**
- 21 Feb 2023