Job Title: Litigation Solicitor
Location: Guildford
Salary: Competitive, dependant on experience
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The company is an innovative, market-leading law firm who specialise in commercial debt recovery and litigation. Based in modern offices on the outskirts of Guildford with ample parking, there is a vacancy in their focused, but friendly, litigation department.
Job Role:
Provision of defended legal services as a fee earner to the Company’s clients in an efficient, cost effective and user-friendly manner.
To be a key player in the development of the department and the Company, in building revenue, reputation and relationships with clients.
Key Objectives:
- Fee earning in Commercial debt recovery and litigation
- Building quality Client relations and achieving a consistent quality service
- Supervision of support staff
Responsibilities:
- Achievement of costs targets
- Client satisfaction
- Maintenance of clients by client visits and contact
- Business development
- Good staff relations
- Improvement in systems
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Knowledge:
- Legal qualifications
- Detailed knowledge of procedure of civil litigation
- Knowledge of up to date insolvency procedures
Skills:
- Tactical and negotiation skills
- Organisational skills
- A good attitude together with good ‘people’ skills including confidence and tact
- Creativity
- Clear thinking and commercial awareness
- Advocacy
- Oral and written communication skills
- Basic managerial competence
- IT literate
Experience:
- Processing debt recovery and commercial litigation matters, including
- Giving advice
- Drafting pleadings
- Advocacy
- Negotiation/ADR
- Experience with construction disputes preferable but not essential
- Dealing sympathetically with clients
- Interacting with other members of staff
Complexity & Creativity
- Job requires solving of complex problems in relation to law, negotiations, the handling of client expectations and case management
- Obtaining satisfactory instructions from clients and effective communication of advice
- Will require a good attitude with commercial awareness and creative solutions to break through to a satisfactory solution of a case
- The mentally challenging aspect of the job is in all but the simplest cases. It includes the ‘managerial’ parts of it and is especially pronounced in advocacy and in writing
- Accountable to the Commercial Litigation Team Leader
Judgment & Decisions:
- Considerable freedom to take own decisions (which in case of poor judgment could have adverse effect on company results) with regard to:
- Conduct of litigation
- Client care
- Exercise of good judgment can:
- Improve productivity and profitability of company
- Foster good client relations and generate repeat business
- Lead to introduction of new clients by recommendation
- Result in pleasant and well-ordered working environment
Operational Responsibility:
- Guiding and assisting junior team members and support staff
- Support role in relation to Commercial Litigation Team Leader
- Expected to adopt pro-active approach to all areas of work including business development
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience of; Legal Graduate, Law Graduate, Graduate, Legal Assistant, Litigation Assistant, GDL, LPC, Legal Executive, Legal Support Assistant, Legal Executive, Legal Handler, Legal Secretary, Fee Earner, Legal Caseworker, Newly Qualified Solicitor, Junior Solicitor, Lawyer, PI Solicitor, Personal Injury Lawyer, Chartered Legal Executive, Personal Injury Caseworker, PI Caseworker, Personal Injury Fee Earner, PI Fee Earner, RTA Caseworker, RTA Fee Earner may also be considered for this role.
