# Recoveries Lawyer

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

**Apply**: https://davies.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/3545c35f-e1f2-4ae0-992b-fbb3c2788360?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are seeking a talented insurance lawyer to join our Property Risks & Coverage Team, specialising in Recoveries. This role will be based in our Birmingham office, with hybrid working available and flexible working encouraged.

As a Recoveries Lawyer, you will manage a caseload of household and commercial property recovery claims on behalf of a range of well-known insurer clients. The work covers a variety of perils, including fire, flood and product liability claims, with values typically exceeding £10,000. You will have opportunities to support training, mentoring and knowledge-sharing initiatives alongside your casework responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct initial case reviews and prepare reports

- Investigate liability and evidential issues

- Carry out investigations with third parties

- Instruct and liaise with counsel and expert witnesses

- Undertake legal research and provide clear, practical advice

- Draft legal documentation

- Attend conferences, mediations and trials with counsel where required

- Manage routine correspondence and communications

- Liaise with insurer and lay clients

- Conduct settlement negotiations

- Prepare and manage pre-action applications and interim applications

- Progress claims from initial instruction through to settlement or trial

- Assist with alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

- Attend court hearings and case management conferences

- Undertake advocacy

- Ensure compliance with SRA Standards and Regulations and internal governance requirements

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, with a one-hour unpaid lunch break

Benefits:

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year

- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa)

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

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

- Death in Service

- Critical Illness Cover

- PHI/Income Protection

- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer

- Employee Resource Groups

- Employee Volunteering Programme

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- Qualified solicitor or equivalent
- Claimant or Defendant property litigation experience
- Experience of running a case load
- Household and Commercial recoveries

### Nice to have
- complex, high-value recovery claims experience

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Source: [Apply at davies.pinpointhq.com](https://davies.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/3545c35f-e1f2-4ae0-992b-fbb3c2788360?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)