Description
Are you an accomplished Serious Injury Lawyer ready to take the next step in your career? Join our highly regarded Serious Injury Team at Thompsons Solicitors and lead the way in representing clients who have sustained life-changing injuries.
The role...
As a Senior Lawyer in our Serious Injury Team, you will handle a portfolio of complex, high-value multi-track cases involving catastrophic injuries such as brain and spinal trauma, amputations, and severe orthopaedic injuries. These often arise from serious road traffic collisions, workplace incidents, or public liability accidents.
In addition to managing your own caseload, you will play a key role in supervising and mentoring junior members of the team, offering technical guidance and supporting their professional development. You will also contribute to the wider strategic and operational goals of the department, sharing best practice, overseeing case quality, and assisting in business development initiatives.
You will lead cases from instruction through to trial or settlement, developing litigation strategy, instructing counsel and experts, and participating in JSMs, ADR, and court proceedings. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior litigator who wants to combine hands-on casework with meaningful leadership responsibility.
Who we are looking for…
We are keen to hear from qualified solicitors or legal executives with significant experience in serious injury or catastrophic personal injury litigation. You will have a proven ability to manage complex multi-track cases with confidence and autonomy, as well as a track record of supervising or mentoring colleagues.
Alongside strong technical and procedural knowledge, you'll demonstrate excellent judgment, leadership, and client care skills. The ability to balance high-quality case management with team oversight and collaboration is key.
You'll need:
* Extensive experience handling complex multi-track serious injury or catastrophic injury claims
* Strong advocacy, negotiation, and case management skills
* Proven supervisory experience or an aptitude for developing others
* Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership abilities
* A commitment to achieving exceptional outcomes for clients
What we offer you…
* Contributory pension scheme
* £4,500 Car Allowance
* Permanent health insurance
* Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
* Life assurance
* 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
* 5 days additional leave over Christmas
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised sports and social club
* Annual travel and parking loans
* Financial assistance for professional development
Apply today and join a team committed to excellence in serious injury litigation, making a meaningful difference in the lives of those affected by life-changing injuries.
About Thompsons Solicitors
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
* the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
* the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
* the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK and later in Europe (1993)
* the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
* hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson and behalf of those injured by mesh
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won't let up in its quest for fairness.
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