Description
By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected.
We have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate Solicitor to join our Cardiff team. Sedgwick Legal Services advises and handles disputes for major insurers, Lloyds syndicates, large corporates, utilities, and local authorities. This role will focus on property damage losses, including those caused by major fires, floods, building collapse, escape of water, and subsidence. Our Legal team leads from our Central Bristol Office, with colleagues in Cardiff and London. The role requires a hybrid working model with three days per week in our Bristol office.
Main duties and responsibilities include:
- Defending and case management of litigated files, including obtaining evidence, and developing knowledge of litigation tactics in Personal Injury and property-related insurance claims.
- Ensuring compliance with Sedgwick's systems and procedures and meeting internal targets for time recording and billing.
The skills you will have when you apply:
- Professional Qualifications: Preferably be a qualified Solicitor or equivalent (CILEX).
- Expertise: Knowledge and experience of the litigation process is essential.
- Insurance Law: Experience in insurance-based personal injury or property damage law.
- Technical Knowledge: Experience handling litigated defendant Personal Injury claims.
- Team Orientation: Willingness to supervise others, be team-orientated, with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
- Commercial Perspective: Ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an 'academic' approach to claims settlement.
The skills that will be developed once working:
- Comprehensive Training: You'll receive all the Sedgwick-specific training needed to excel in your role.
What we'll give you for this role:
- Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications
- A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme (SIPP)
- You will join an appropriate incentive (bonus) scheme
- Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Flexible working from our office or your home
- Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions)
- Life assurance
- Employee assistance programme for employee wellbeing
- Wellbeing and digital GP apps
- Group Income Protection
- Voluntary flexible benefits – green car scheme, health assessment, travel insurance, dental cover, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan
- Discounts on various products and services