This is an exciting opportunity to join Kennedys' highly regarded Liability practice as a Property Recoveries Associate, in our well-established and nationally recognised Recoveries team.
Kennedys has a strong reputation in recoveries work, acting for leading insurers and corporate clients. As demand continues to grow, we have an excellent opportunity for an ambitious solicitor looking to build depth of expertise, take on increasing responsibility, and play a visible role in the continued development of the team.
Team
The role sits within Kennedys' Liability Defence division, a core practice advising insurer and corporate clients on complex liability claims. Recoveries work forms a growing part of the division, delivered in close collaboration with the firm's successfully established Motor Recoveries team, offering a strong platform for technical development and progression.
Role
You will be responsible for managing a varied caseload of property recovery claims and to support the partner of the team in supervising and developing the junior members of the team.
This role offers client exposure and collaboration across teams, and is ideal for a solicitor who enjoys strategic litigation, clear decision-making, and contributing to the development of best practice within a growing recoveries offering.
Key Responsibilities
1. Managing a caseload of property recovery matters from instruction through to settlement or resolution.
2. Advising insurer clients on liability, causation, recoverability, and litigation strategy.
3. Drafting pleadings, schedules of loss, and correspondence, and progressing claims through the litigation process.
4. Instructing and liaising with experts, including surveyors, engineers, and fire investigators. Identifying opportunities for early resolution and delivering commercially focused outcomes.
5. Providing technical input and practical guidance to colleagues, supporting knowledge-sharing and team development.
Required experience
6. Qualified solicitor (England & Wales).
7. Essential litigation experience, with the ability to run files independently.
8. Experience handling property damage recoveries, subrogated claims, or complex liability matters.
9. Strong working knowledge of Fast Track and Intermediate Track procedure, including costs considerations.
10. Solid understanding of negligence, breach of duty, contribution claims, contractual indemnities, and limitation.
11. Experience offering technical guidance, constructive challenge, or file strategy input to colleagues is advantageous. Previous formal supervisory experience is beneficial but not essential, as the team provides structured training and development.
12. Excellent drafting, communication, and client-facing skills.
Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
About Kennedys
Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.
Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.
We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.
What do we have to offer?
We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.
Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.
The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.
We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.
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