# Associate - Catastrophic Injury

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

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## Description

We are seeking an Associate - Catastrophic Injury to join our Legal team in Southampton. This is a full-time role with a hybrid working arrangement, offering the opportunity to develop technical and strategic legal skills while working on high-value, multi-track and catastrophic injury claims.

As an Associate - Catastrophic Injury, you will play a key role in progressing complex and high-value injury claims from instruction through to resolution. You will work closely with a Lead Lawyer, gaining hands-on experience with cases involving brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputations, and fatal claims, across EL, PL, and RTA matters.

Responsibilities:

- Support the Lead Lawyer on a caseload of complex, high-value, and catastrophic injury claims

- Manage claims from receipt of instruction to settlement or trial

- Analyse complex liability and quantum evidence, including large volumes of medical records

- Prepare chronologies, identify anomalies, and highlight key issues

- Assist with valuation of claims, including use of the Ogden Tables

- Draft high-quality technical advice on indemnity, liability, quantum, causation, and strategy

- Interview witnesses and draft statements

- Draft pleadings and applications

- Instruct counsel and attend conferences, JSMs, mediations, and trials

- Liaise confidently with insurer clients, insured parties, experts, and other stakeholders

- Delegate tasks to and support the development of Legal Assistants and Paralegals

- Maintain accurate case management and MI in line with client requirements

Requirements:

- Qualified solicitor with a genuine interest in complex injury and litigation

- Experience assisting on claims involving indemnity, liability, and quantum

- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, particularly around quantum

- Excellent attention to detail and ability to handle complex evidence

- Confident in written and verbal communication skills, including telephone advocacy

- Sound understanding of litigation process, case law, and court rules

- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines under pressure

Desirable:

- Experience with complex medical issues or catastrophic injury claims

- Experience using the Ogden Tables

- Exposure to high-value multi-track claims

Benefits:

- Hybrid working (minimum 1 day per week in office)

- Private medical insurance

- Permanent health insurance

- Critical illness cover

- Health Care Cash Plan

- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, rising to 26 days after 5 years and 27 days after 10 years

- Option to buy/sell up to 3 days

- Employer pension contribution

- Death in service cover

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Tech Scheme

- Season Ticket Loan

- GymFlex membership

## Skills

### Required
- litigation
- complex injury claims
- indemnity
- liability
- quantum
- Ogden Tables

### Nice to have
- complex medical issues
- catastrophic injury claims

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