Associate - Professional Indemnity

Job Introduction
Are you looking for a role where you will be intellectually challenged, but treated with respect? Or an environment where you can enjoy industry-leading work quality without compromising on client contact and business development? Or a position that offers genuine flexibility to allow you to meet your personal and work commitments? An opportunity in our Professional and Commercial Risk team may be for you.

We provide expert legal advice to clients across an engaging mix of professional disciplines including Professional Indemnity, Financial Institutions, Directors and Officers and Construction. Our teams work collaboratively across these disciplines and, whilst everyone will have their area of particular expertise, we encourage cross-working so colleagues have genuine variety in their work and can use their rounded expertise to provide creative, bespoke solutions for our clients.

So, why should you be excited about a career with us? Our team are empowered to develop their own client contacts and relationships from the start of their careers; you will see how your contribution directly impacts on your clients and understand how the service you provide helps them. We are very proud of our client base, who provide us with top-quality instructions. We have the backing of a truly international firm with over 2,500 colleagues across 9 countries and with international associations further bolstering our capabilities.

We aim to encourage diversity by offering the opportunity to bring your whole self to work, underpinned by our employer brand of A Life That Works. Our team are very busy and work hard, but we offer genuine flexibility to allow you to meet your personal and work commitments - and that flexibility won’t disappear post-Covid. All across our team, from our emerging talent to our senior leadership, you won’t find a closed door, real or virtual. Read on for more information about our specific vacancy and the firm as a whole.

Main Responsibilities
As part of our growth and strategy, our Manchester Professional Indemnity team is looking to recruit an additional 5+ year qualified solicitor to join our team. Ideally the individual will have professional indemnity experience and have mentored and supervised more junior fee earners and trainee solicitors. However, that is not essential.

The individual will play an active role in the continued growth and success of the team in collaboration with our wider practice in the North, nationally and internationally. The team acts for all the main Insurance companies and Insured professionals in the supply chain. We deal with the full spectrum of Insurance work from Policy cover, recovery and strategic advice to Insurers.

As part of the team you will have:

- The opportunity to interact on a regular basis with clients. You will share your knowledge of key issues and provide meaningful advice and support. You will also have the ability to form and develop direct relationships with insurer and professional clients.
- A mixed workload of professional negligence claims involving a wide variety of professionals but with a particular emphasis on solicitors, insurance brokers and emerging professionals.
- Responsibility for having conduct of pre-action and litigated matters, supervising more junior members of staff but with the opportunity to assist more senior fee earners on large / complex matters.
- A good understanding and experience of alternative dispute resolution, including attendance at and conducting mediation.
- Have very good relationship and client handling skills, commensurate with experience.
- Be able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues.
- Have a good level of self-sufficiency, and manage a caseload commensurate with experience.
- Be change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
- Be team oriented and collegiate, with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
- Demonstrate a willingness to work hard as part of a highly ambitious and driven team to help it continue to develop and to achieve its objectives.

About The Company
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissione