# Assistant Lawyer

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

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## Description

We are seeking an Assistant Lawyer to support a Complex Disease Lawyer in managing and progressing claims to secure desired outcomes for clients at appropriate levels of profitability.

## Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Reviewing documents and preparing reports

- Dealing with disclosure

- Reviewing evidence, including medical and personnel records

- Conducting investigations with insured parties and obtaining witness statements

- Instructing counsel and experts

- Research

- Drafting generally

- Attending conferences and trials with counsel

- Dealing with routine correspondence and court appointments

- Liaising with and taking instructions from insurers and insureds

- Ensuring adherence to court timetables and the Keoghs Values.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

The ideal candidate will have:

- Technical proficiency in dealing with a range of mixed disease cases

- Effective negotiation skills

- Ability to use own initiative

- Flexibility in relation to tasks undertaken

- Good listening and verbal communication skills

- Ability to maintain concentration and pay attention to detail

- Ability to self-organise and self-prioritise

- Ability to work under pressure and meet targets

- A good level of IT skills.

## Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Davies Incentive Plan

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

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

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

- Death In Service – after 1 year's service

- Pension Contribution based on 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
- technical proficiency in dealing with mixed disease cases
- effective negotiation
- initiative
- flexibility
- good listening and verbal communication skills
- attention to detail
- self-organisation
- ability to work under pressure

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