# Assistant Lawyer

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Liverpool
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking an Assistant Lawyer to support a Complex Disease Lawyer in managing and progressing claims to secure desired outcomes for clients at appropriate levels of profitability.

### Key Responsibilities

- Review documents and prepare reports

- Handle disclosure and review evidence, including medical and personnel records

- Conduct investigations with insured parties and obtain witness statements

- Instruct counsel and experts, and conduct research

- Draft documents, attend conferences and trials with counsel, and deal with routine correspondence and court appointments

- Liaise with insurers and insured parties, ensuring adherence to court timetables and compliance with the SRA Code of Conduct 2011 and Keoghs Values

### Requirements

- Technical proficiency in handling mixed disease cases

- Effective negotiation skills

- Ability to use initiative, flexible approach to tasks, good listening and verbal communication skills

- Maintain concentration, attention to detail, self-organisation, and prioritisation skills

- Ability to work under pressure, enthusiastic and hardworking individual with good IT skills

### Benefits

- 25 days holiday per year, increasing with service level (with opportunity to buy and sell 3 days)

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support, and virtual wellbeing covering various topics

- Death In Service – after 1 year's service

- Pension Contribution based on 5% Employee / 3% Employer

- Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Gym Flex

- Access to Online Discount Sites, Discounted Gourmet Society Membership, Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions, and discounts at local retail outlets

## Skills

### Required
- Technical proficiency in mixed disease cases
- Effective negotiation
- Initiative
- Flexibility
- Good listening and verbal communication
- Attention to detail
- Self-organisation
- Prioritisation
- Working under pressure
- Good IT skills

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