Solicitor/litigator

**Role**: Defendant Casualty Litigator - Solicitor / Legal Executive / Fee Earner **Location**: Tamworth, West Midlands or Blisworth, Northampton **Intro Section**: Strata Solicitors have an opportunity for someone talented and committed to join our successful and growing niche law firm, providing quality market-leading, legal, claims, and business services and solutions to the UK’s largest and most prestigious companies. Empowered by our supportive, flexible and quality led culture, our comprehensive training, progression, and professional support programmes will provide you with a real opportunity to build a successful career. The breadth and scope of opportunities available to you are further enhanced with Strata providing speciality legal services within the multinational outsourced claims handling Group, Gallagher Bassett. Providing global claims solutions in over 75 countries,and being the UK’s largest provider, we need you to help us grow our legal services in both the national and international markets. **Hybrid Working Available** **Reports to**: Litigation Claims Manager **Main Purpose of Role**: Handling your own caseload (within a corporate/insurer client specific motor/casualty claims handling team) of defendant litigated claims. **Core Responsibilities**: - Defending litigated employers and public liability claims on behalf of insurers and large self-insured corporates from issue to trial; claims to include personal injury and fraud. - Assessing liability and setting and maintaining reserves in accordance with client service level agreements and client "key performance indicators". - Investigation of merits of third party claim. - Telephone and correspondence negotiation with third parties, third party insurers and third party solicitors to agree the best client outcome. - Valuing General and Special Damages. - Use of the Civil Procedure Rules and relevant Authorities to obtain the best client outcome. - On all own handled claims ensure full compliance with all office protocols, client service level agreements and client "key performance indicators". - Achieving on all own handled claims 100% data integrity compliance on the office case management system. - Working within and supporting the litigation team to achieve and maintain full compliance with all office protocols, client service level agreements and client "key performance indicators". Delegation and supervision of appropriate tasks to the Claims AdministrationAssistants. - Full compliance on all financial transactions with the client service level agreements and client "key performance indicators" and The Solicitors Accounts Rules. **Key Competencies Needed**: - Enthusiastic positive person with a "can do" approach; - Strong communication skills and good telephone manner; - Ability to cope under pressure and respond to demands; - Adaptable to change; - Problem solving approach; - Good organisational skills; - Self-motivation and good use of initiative; - Ability to work independently and as part of a team. **Why Strata Solicitors?** Strata Solicitors is a niche law-firm whom provide a high-end quality service with a strong brand and reputation within the corporate market. We have a number of departments within Strata Solicitors (both legal and insurance based); noting too additional areas within our parent company Gallagher Bassett, both business enabling you to progress your career in whichever direction you desire. At Strata Solicitors, we are proud of our company values; we value our people as our most important asset. We invest substantially in training and provide long-term career opportunities, to ensure that our employees are equipped with the knowledge and skillsto perform at their best. By joining Strata Solicitors, you are joining an organisation who will present opportunities that not only enable our company to remain an industry leader which continues to grow but also provide employees with realistic opportunities to achieve successand personal growth. **What can Strata Solicitors offer you?** - Financial support with reference to Qualifications, and Learning and Development Courses - 25 Days Annual Leave, Plus Bank Holidays - Pension Package - Subsidised Gym Membership - Life Assurance - Group Income Protection - Season Ticket Loans - Gallagher Benefits Choice Portal - Employee Stock Purchase Plan We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.