Fee Earner

**This is a fantastic opportunity to join a top 100 law firm based in Wakefield. We are looking to hire Fee Earner to join our Bike (Fast Track) Team.**

**About us**

Minster Law Solicitors is wholly owned by BHL UK Ltd, a UK subsidiary of BHL, a highly successful, cash generative and profitable international Insurance Services Group. Established in 2006, Minster Law is one of the UK’s leading personal injury claims providers to the motor insurance market.

**Our Values**

When you join the team here at Minster, you will be joining an Investor’s in People Platinum accredited organisation, which demonstrates our commitment to high performance through great people and a strong company culture that focuses on trust, respect, openness and inclusion. Our values are ‘stand together’, ‘be courageous’ and ‘find a way’ and this embodies everything we do.

**The Role**

To deliver robust quality claims handling, with a key focus on customer outcomes for Minster Law clients, to generate fee income and contribute to the general success of the business. The successful applicant will manage a caseload of Non portal Pre and Post Litigated RTA Fast Track cases, specialising in motorbike claims.

Team allocation will be determined by the business need and your current experience, knowledge and skill set; however, types of cases managed may vary as the business needs require from time to time and commensurate with your skill set.

Core Responsibilities:

- Responsible for a high-volume caseload of RTA pre and post litigated nonportal claims, following Minster Law best practise, in order to progress your claims through to settlement or transfer to litigation.
- Ownership of the client relationship ensuring that the right outcome is achieved, and the client’s claim is optimized.
- Ability to deal with complex liability disputes involving motorcycles, and denials of liability with mínimal supervision.
- Assess quantum to include reviewing medical reports and researching and obtaining relevant case law for complex multi-site injuries.
- Drafting schedules of special damages and assessing suitable awards for compensation for pain, suffering and loss of amenity, and other general damages.
- Negotiate with third parties to ensure we receive the best settlement figures for our clients in a proactive and timely manner, identify litigation opportunities where appropriate.
- Drafting Court proceedings, dealing with direction questionnaires, adhering to court directions and timescales, preparing relevant documents for disclosure, dealing with telephone hearings, submitting evidence and instructing Counsel/other appropriate experts as required.
- Ability to work with a task-based case management system in addition to working with Mi based around case progression to ensure regular contact is maintained with all clients, providing exceptional customer service and managing their expectations.
- Perform to a high level in a target orientated environment.
- To undertake any other tasks as deemed relevant and reasonable by the business.

**Alternative Titles**:
Case Handler, Legal Executive

**How we work**

We encourage and support agile working to allow our colleagues to get the best out of their day. As long as we continue to ensure that our customers, partners, business and colleagues needs are met, we believe colleagues can work where they feel will be most productive - at home, in the office or other suitable venue. By allowing our colleagues the ability to work in an agile environment, we believe this encourages and creates a more fluid approach to how we work, to stimulate productivity, creativity and engagement.

**Our Benefits**

We also offer great benefits at Minster so we can reward our colleagues for the great work they do and to say thank you. This includes a generous bonus scheme, matched pension scheme, insurance benefits, health and wellbeing support, discounts, regular reward incentives, study sponsorship and great social events.

**Giving Back (CSR)**

Being able to support our local communities is important to us and is a key part of who we are. We have a strong Corporate Social Responsibility agenda and a host of activities to support this. This includes working with charities and groups that help to improve the lives in our local communities. This commitment to improving and supporting our local communities is embedded into our working lives so much that we actively encourage our colleagues to spend one day a year volunteering by giving them a day off.

**Person Specification**

Essential:

- Previous experience of managing your own caseload of RTA pre-Litigated claims.
- Previous experience of managing your own caseload of Litigated Personal Injury Claims and good understanding of the CPR and litigation processes.
- Accountable for achieving objectives in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining high standards of work quality and client care.
- Tactically astute and an excellent negotiator with st