Job Description
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Your new company
\nOur client is a highly-regarded defendant firm with offices nationwide. They are currently recruiting for an Associate with 3+ years PQE to join their Healthcare team on a hybrid working basis. This role is open to their Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham offices.
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\nYour new role
\nThis Defendant Clinical Negligence Associate role will see you handle your own caseload of litigated and pre-litigated clinical negligence claims on behalf of NHS Resolution. While the caseload is primarily NHS Resolution, there is the opportunity to expand your defendant clinical negligence/healthcare experience over time. You will provide strategic and technical advice to NHS Trusts and other healthcare bodies. This role will see you responsible for drafting pleadings, witness statements, instructions to counsel and other litigation documentation. You will be required to attend hearings, settlement meetings and case conferences when needed.
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\nWhat you'll need to succeed
\nYou must be a qualified solicitor with a minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience. You must have strong experience handling your own caseload of defendant clinical negligence files. Ideally, applicants will have direct NHSR exposure.
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\nWhat you'll get in return
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