Catastrophic Injury Solicitor

We have a new vacancy for a Solicitor to join this firm’s growing catastrophic injury team within their personal injury department based in Manchester.

The team of expert personal injury lawyers produce some of the best results in the industry. They pride themselves on providing a high level of customer service and understand how an injury can have an impact on clients' day-to-day lives.

The Role

• In this newly established role, you will assist the team with a mixed caseload made up of brain injuries predominately, as well as spinal cord cases and amputation claims.
• You will have the unique opportunity to learn from an award-winning team of top ranked lawyers with substantial experience and long-established reputations in catastrophic injury.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting Partners with catastrophic injury claims from start to finish.
• Reviewing records including medical, education, case management etc.
• Strengthening and growing the team’s charitable partnerships.
• Leading the way with charitable fundraising ideas and driving social/fundraising activities and initiatives.
• Collating enclosures to accompany instructions to Counsel and experts.
• Engaging with clients, taking statements and preparing instructions to Counsel and experts.
• Drafting of bills and archiving.
• Using your knowledge to support trainees within the team.
• Keeping up to date with developments in law and procedure.

About You:

• To succeed in this role, you will be a Qualified Solicitor with 0-3 years post qualification experience. You should also be able to demonstrate:
• Experience of assisting with catastrophic injury claims.
• Experience of business development/marketing/networking/use of social media will be looked upon favourably along with experience of working with relevant charities.
• Legal analysis and research.
• An ability to build relationships with clients and drive charitable initiatives.
• Good working knowledge of relevant law and procedure.

If you are interested in this position, and you meet the requirements of the role, please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your resume, cover letter transcript and writing sample. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Kean Smith for a confidential discussion.

Our advertisements use salary and experience as a guide only. Interlink Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer.

*Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving we are unable to contact applicants who have been unsuccessful...