Litigation Assistant

**Description**:
Are you passionate about helping individuals seek justice and navigate the legal landscape? Do you have a keen eye for detail and a drive to excel in a dynamic legal environment? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you

As a Litigation Assistant, you will play a crucial role in managing a caseload of pre-litigated cases, primarily focused on personal injury claims for our union members. These cases encompass a variety of scenarios, including road traffic accidents, employers' liability, and public liability claims. You will be joining the team on a full-time, permanent basis, based out of our Dagenham office.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Conducting investigations and gathering evidence to determine whether litigation is warranted.
- Handling a wide range of tasks such as initial merit assessments, obtaining liability evidence, pre-action disclosure, securing medical evidence when necessary, making disclosure decisions, assessing claim values, and liaising with clients, witnesses, experts, unions, third parties, and defendants.
- Producing all your work with mínimal assistance from administrative and support staff.
- Proficiency in using provided equipment and case management systems is essential; you will be fully trained on our specific case management system, Mattersphere.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Familiarity with Pre-Action Protocols, Civil Procedure Rules, and funding procedures is beneficial but not mandatory.
- Ability to work efficiently, accurately, and meet deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Outstanding client care skills.
- Ability to follow instructions and make informed decisions.
- Understanding of case management systems and proficiency in utilising the Microsoft suite (e.g., Word, Excel, and Outlook).

**Benefits**:

- Contributory pension scheme
- 5 days additional leave over Christmas (Xmas shut down)
- Permanent health insurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan (MediCash)
- Life assurance
- 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Organised sports and social club
- Annual travel and parking loans
- Financial assistance for professional development

**About Thompsons Solicitors**:
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.

Thompsons ran:

- the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
- the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
- the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
- the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
- hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).

Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 23 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.

Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.

We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.

Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.