# Solicitor Advocate / Barrister (Band 2)

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Liverpool, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

As a Solicitor Advocate / Barrister (Band 2) at Davies, you will provide advocacy, advisory, and drafting services to Keoghs LLP. Training will be provided by more senior members of the team.

## Key Responsibilities

- Undertake advocacy, drafting, and advisory work, including settling pleadings, interlocutory hearings, small claims trials, fast track trials, CCMCs, sanctions, and recoveries.

- Assist more senior members of the team in delivering the above services.

- Develop expertise in Keoghs' core practice areas and potentially a niche speciality.

- Deliver advocacy and litigation training/updates for fee earners.

- Assist in supervising or mentoring Band One Advocates.

- Perform client-facing and product development tasks as required.

- Contribute to the development of the in-house advocacy team.

- Obtain higher rights of audience, if not already obtained.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

- If Barrister, hold a full practising certificate.

- If Solicitor, have Higher Rights of Audience or related experience/enthusiasm to develop an advocacy career.

- 3-10+ years of call or PQE.

- Experience in insurance fraud, general PI, EL/PL, costs, large loss, and/or professional negligence.

- Trial experience is preferred.

- Ability to produce high-quality paperwork with minimal supervision.

## Benefits

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year, increasing with level of service

- 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 (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

- Discounts at local retail outlets

## Skills

### Required
- advocacy
- drafting
- litigation
- pleadings
- court proceedings

### Nice to have
- trial experience
- insurance fraud
- general PI
- EL/PL
- costs
- large loss
- professional negligence

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