Litigation Assistant - Volume, Casualty

Litigation Assistant – Volume Casualty

Kennedys is seeking a proactive and detail-focused Litigation Assistant to join our Volume Casualty team in Sheffield, Manchester or Birmingham.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with personal injury and litigation experience to develop their career within a leading defendant practice. You'll work on a varied portfolio of employers' liability and public liability claims, gaining exposure to both pre-litigation and litigated matters while working closely with experienced fee earners and Partners.

We're looking for someone who enjoys taking responsibility, working collaboratively and delivering excellent client service. You'll be confident managing multiple matters, have strong attention to detail and be keen to continue developing your technical knowledge within casualty litigation.

Team

Our national practice handles personal injury claims from seven office locations across the UK. We act for a broad range of clients across employers' liability, public liability and other casualty matters, with our teams led by experienced Partners recognised as leaders in the sector.

We focus on working in partnership with our clients and delivering practical, modern solutions. This includes making use of our in-house R&D capability and award-winning suite of technological and process innovations to provide an efficient and commercially focused service.

Clients

You'll work with a range of clients, including:

• EL/PL insurers
• Loss adjusters
• Corporate and SME insureds

Cases

The team handles a varied caseload including:

• Mixed-value, volume claims
• Employers' liability and public liability
• Leisure and retail sector claims
• Product liability
• Claims involving SME insureds
• Both pre-litigation and litigated files

What We're Looking For

• A minimum of 1 year's personal injury experience*
• Litigation experience is essential, ideally within employers' liability and/or public liability
• Experience gained within either a claimant or defendant personal injury environment
• Basic knowledge of policy coverage
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage a varied caseload
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confident communication skills and a strong client-service mindset
• A proactive, collaborative approach with excellent attention to detail

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.