Assistant Lawyer

1 day ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Keoghs Full time
Job Title: Assistant Lawyer

Keoghs is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Assistant Lawyer to join our team in Manchester. As an Assistant Lawyer, you will play a key role in assisting Partners in dealing with regulatory cases, motor crime, and inquest work.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Review and analysis of prosecution evidence and considering implications for lay clients and companies
  • Drafting statements of insured witnesses
  • Review of client 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 relevant regulators
  • 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 clients and corporate clients
  • Liaising with Insured 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 lead lawyer's strategy
  • Attendance / representation at interview under cautions
  • Attendance behind Counsel for trials & inquests - drafting notes of evidence, outcome, and sentencing
  • Arranging 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 Insured's - corporate structure, their procedures, risk assessments, documents
  • Collating witness availability
  • Preparation of bundles for hearings, serving bundles

Requirements:

  • A qualified Solicitor, with at least 1 year's experience in crime, regulatory, or care home inquest experience
  • An ability to prioritise workload
  • Ability to pay attention to detail
  • Ability to work with case management systems
  • The personal skills to deal with insureds 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

Compensation & Benefits:

Salary to be discussed on application, hybrid working 1 day minimum per week in office remainder remote working, private medical insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover, Health Care Cash Plan, Holidays 25 days plus 8 bank holidays (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days), holidays rise to 26 days after 5 years' service and 27 days after 10 years' service, Death In Service – after 1 year, Employer Pension Contribution, Cycle to Work Scheme*, Tech Scheme*, Season Ticket Loan*, Gym Flex* (*after successfully completing probation)

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