Solicitor or Equivalent (Clinical Negligence Grade A)

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Location: Newcastle
Hybrid working available with the flexibility to work from home and collaborate in-office when needed. We believe we offer our colleagues the best hybrid and flexible working practices, balancing working from home with time collaborating and socialising with colleagues in our modern offices.

Join Our Leading Clinical Negligence Team

Are you an experienced Clinical Negligence Solicitor ready to take the next step in your career? We are seeking a highly skilled lawyer to join our dynamic and supportive team, where your expertise will make a real difference.

With a strong reputation in clinical negligence and a team that includes APIL, AvMA, and Law Society accredited specialists, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. As a Senior Solicitor, you'll enjoy a high level of autonomy, handling complex cases from start to finish, ensuring that each is conducted with a proactive and commercially focused approach. You will correspond regularly with clients, medical experts, and other stakeholders to provide clear, informed guidance and maintain strong, supportive relationships. Your experience and leadership will be instrumental in delivering successful outcomes, driving the team's success, and upholding our commitment to excellence in clinical negligence law, while benefiting from a collaborative culture, hybrid working, and excellent benefits.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a progressive environment where your contribution will be valued, your professional growth supported, and your work truly impactful.

In Return Fletchers Offers

• 35 hours working week
• Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
• 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays; option to purchase up to 3 extra days per year
• Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option
• Life Assurance Policy
• Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical and other medical expenses
• Company sick pay
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
• Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
• Varied calendar of funded company social events
• Monthly voucher awards for winning nominees
• A genuinely supportive and friendly culture
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities

Main Responsibilities

• Accountable for providing support, guidance and assistance to the team to deliver outstanding service to customers
• Proactive and commercial case management and progression
• Supporting the Team Leader in ensuring the delivery of the team's financial performance KPIs
• Effective and thorough time recording

Responsibilities

• Discussing and agreeing case tactics and planning with the Team Leader and members of the team
• Identifying cases which are ready for LOC, settlement and service within the team
• Working with the team to ensure that relevant information is being collected and collated to enable the progression of the case
• Management of a caseload in a proactive commercial manner
• Co-ordinating the progression of cases with all internal and external parties
• Drafting of legal documentation including LOC, letters of instruction
• Negotiating settlement and the issuing and service of proceedings should it be required
• Overseeing the documentation and correspondence produced by the team
• Advising the team on any technical issues arising from the work

Essential Skills And Experience

• Recent experience of handling a caseload
• 8 years+ PQE or equivalent experience working in Clinical Negligence
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and drafting skills
• Excellent IT skills, especially in Microsoft Office packages, Proclaim and Excel
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong commercial awareness within a legal environment
• Ability to work well with junior team members, providing coaching and mentoring
• Flexible and willing to commit to achieving results and meeting deadlines
• Excellent client care skills

We reserve the right to close this role before the date specified depending on the calibre and volume of candidates.

About Fletchers Group

Fletchers is a fast-growing, dynamic law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence law, with outstanding rankings in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Following several strategic acquisitions, we've evolved into the Fletchers Group, with ambitious plans for continued growth and innovation.

We aspire to be the best place to work in the legal sector. Our workplace culture is inclusive, informal, and supportive, with a strong focus on colleague wellbeing and happiness. We offer some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in the industry because we understand that balance drives performance. At Fletchers, we value connection and collaboration and provide clear paths to progression and development from apprenticeships to senior roles and Partnership.

We seek a broad range of challenging, high-quality legal work, enabling our people to build meaningful and progressive careers. We invest in development with many colleagues working towards relevant qualifications at any given time. We reward those who help build our success and live our values. Our benefits package is designed to grow with you, with base pay and a bonus structure that recognises high performance. Join us and be part of a law firm that is growing and redefining what it means to work in legal services.

Fletchers Group is an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are committed to providing a culture where everyone can thrive and celebrate that no colleague is the same. We support diversity standards and are proud of our work on the Disability Confident scheme.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Internship

Job function

• Legal

Industries

• Law Practice

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