Solicitor‑Senior Associate – D&O/Coverage
Department: Professional and Commercial Risk
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol
Are you looking for a role that challenges you intellectually while offering industry‑leading work quality, client engagement, business development opportunities, and genuine flexibility? An opportunity in our Professional and Commercial Risk team may be for you.
Key Responsibilities
* Handling a stimulating and often complex D&O caseload with an emphasis on advising on insurance coverage, but with opportunities to handle a wide variety of claims against directors and officers.
* The opportunity to interact on a regular basis with leading insurer clients in this area.
* Working collaboratively with other specialists across the firm.
* Acting as a point of contact for clients where necessary, demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.
* Maintaining an awareness of the firm's strategies and plans.
* Maintaining and developing technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
* Ensuring full compliance with DAC Beachcroft protocols on billing and credit control and demonstrating a high level of financial management when supporting others in managing files and in relation to own files, where appropriate.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* A qualified solicitor with at least 2 years PQE experience (up to and including Senior Associates) gained in a specialist insurance firm (or in‑house at a financial lines insurer).
* Good experience in advising on insurance coverage under financial lines policies and ideally including under D&O/Management Liability policies.
* Excellent relationship and client handling skills. Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day‑to‑day issues.
* Experience on secondment with a leading financial lines insurer would be beneficial.
* The ability to deliver clear, well‑written legal advice/reports on complex legal/coverage issues.
* Able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self‑sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
* Ability to adopt a client‑focused and commercial perspective rather than an “academic” approach to legal issues, coupled with a keen grasp of legal issues, as these arise (demonstrating a clear ability to learn quickly “on the job”).
* Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
* Team‑oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
* Willingness to work hard as part of a highly ambitious and driven team to help it continue to develop and to achieve its objectives.
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