# EL/PL Litigation Supervisor

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Lostock, Bolton, Bolton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

The Keoghs Casualty business unit is seeking to recruit a Qualified Solicitor or equivalent as an EL/PL Litigation Supervisor.

This diverse role offers an excellent opportunity to train, mentor and develop others, drive technical excellence in a commercial manner across all files, and carry your own caseload of predominantly Multi Track files.

## Key Responsibilities

- Supervise and develop aligned handlers and/or assistants, leading, encouraging and mentoring them to deliver technical excellence.

- Drive financial authority audits and technical excellence, ensuring files are handled in a commercial manner.

- Devise strategies on files within sub-team and ensure they are delivered.

- Support handlers to work economically on cases whilst delivering the best possible outcome for clients.

- Guide the team to identify opportunities for files better suited to being handled in specialist hourly rate teams.

- Embed KYO strategies.

- Support colleagues in client-facing roles, such as CAM/DCAM/PPC, on designated clients.

- Participate in client audits, potential face-to-face client meetings, training sessions, case surgeries, and workshops, and client socialising.

- Attend internal technical meetings and disseminate information to the team.

- Devise and deliver bespoke training to the needs of the sub-team, supported by PDPs.

In addition, the EL/PL Litigation Supervisor will carry their own caseload and be responsible for:

- Building relationships with Keoghs clients, liaising with large insurers.

- Managing a mixed caseload of EL/PL predominantly Multi-Track cases consisting of claims typically valued between £25k - £100k.

- Achieving targets in terms of chargeable hours, WIP, and the collection of client MI.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

- Qualified Solicitor/CILEX.

- Experience of handling a caseload of EL/PL files up to £100k is essential.

- Previous litigation experience is essential.

- Previous supervision experience is essential.

- Financial Authority of at least £25k.

- Good advocacy skills.

- Positive, confident, and enthusiastic.

- Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills.

- Excellent client care skills and evidence of working to client guidelines.

- Ability to prioritise work, keep to deadlines, and work under pressure.

- High level of analytical skills.

- Ability to make decisions and delegate effectively.

- Ability to anticipate problems and identify solutions.

- Ability to win the trust and confidence, inspire and motivate.

- The ability to demonstrate resilience.

- Excellent IT skills.

- Ability to act as a role model to others.

## Benefits

- Davies Incentive Plan.

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

- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa).

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan.

- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support, and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics.

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Qualified Solicitor/CILEX
- Experience of handling a caseload of EL/PL files up to £100k
- Previous litigation experience
- Previous supervision experience
- Financial Authority of at least £25k
- Good advocacy skills
- Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills
- Excellent client care skills

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