Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
We're an established in-house advocacy team who provide advocacy services across our legal teams, including but not limited to Commercial Litigation, Employment, Family, Personal Injury & Medical Negligence.
You will work closely with colleagues across the business to ensure that the very best service is provided in meeting our client’s needs, by specifically, providing services to our clients in the most efficient and effective way. Not only will you get involved in drafting and advisory work, but you can also expect to undertake advocacy both remotely and in person. The team is fully supported by an advocacy clerk overseeing paperwork and diary management.
The work will certainly be challenging and engaging with regular exposure to courtroom advocacy and significant opportunity to highlight your experience and expertise.
About You
We're looking for Barristers who are perhaps wanting to move away from being self-employed and want to move inhouse or Solicitors with higher rights of audience accreditation to join our inhouse Advocacy team, our ideal candidate will have the following:
1. The ability to undertake drafting, advisory and conference work;
2. Qualified Barrister or Solicitor with higher rights of audience accreditation;
3. Demonstratable experience performing advocacy work for either claimants or defendants;
4. The ability to work both independently and collaboratively with colleagues to deliver the best outcomes for our case handlers;
5. Demonstratable technical experience gained within Personal Injury/Family/Commerical Litigation/Employment Tribunals;
6. Excellent communication skills will be of paramount importance in the building of relationships with the case handlers who are looking after our clients on a day to day basis.
If this sounds like you and you want to join a thriving team hit the apply button below for consideration!
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
7. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
8. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
9. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
10. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
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