# Crime & Regulatory - Solicitor

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Leeds, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We're looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Solicitor to join our specialist crime and regulatory team in Leeds.

Working closely with Lead Lawyer David Chant, you'll play a key role in handling complex health & safety, and serious motor matters,often from the very outset of an incident through to resolution.

This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who enjoys both technical legal work and client interaction, and who is passionate about delivering high-quality legal solutions while building strong, trusted client relationships.

## Key Responsibilities

In this varied and hands-on role, you will:

- Analyse prosecution evidence and assess its implications for clients

- Draft witness statements and review client evidence

- Collate, organise, and summarise case materials for senior lawyers

- Liaise with courts, coroners, regulators (HSE, CQC, Police) and external experts

- Prepare and serve defence case statements, sentencing and mitigation bundles

- Draft submissions and support case strategy development

- Attend interviews under caution, inquests, and trials alongside Counsel

- Conduct legal and regulatory research (including HSE guidelines)

- Review medical records, post-mortem reports, transcripts and CCTV evidence

- Coordinate meetings, site visits, and expert appointments

- Support clients sensitively in often challenging and high-pressure situations

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

We're looking for someone who is:

- A qualified Solicitor with NQ – 4 years PQE in ideally one or more of the following specialisms: Health & Safety, Regulatory, Inquests, Traffic Commissioner, Serious Motor

- Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities

- Detail-focused and confident working with case management systems

- A strong communicator, able to build rapport with clients and stakeholders at all levels

- Calm, resilient and professional under pressure

- A collaborative team player with a proactive, flexible approach

- Sensitive and empathetic in dealing with clients facing difficult circumstances

- Confident in your written work, research, and IT skills

## Benefits

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)

- Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing

- Death in Service

- Critical Illness Cover

- PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)

- Pension Contribution based 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 nationwide

- Discounts at local retail outlets

*after successfully completing probation

## Skills

### Required
- Health & Safety
- Regulatory
- Inquests
- Traffic Commissioner
- Serious Motor
- case management systems
- written communication
- research
- IT skills

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