Keoghs LLP
- As part of our on-going growth strategy, we are looking for a Lead File Handler to join our Industrial Disease team in Liverpool to help service their ever-growing roster of clients across Industrial Disease.
- Take ownership of your own caseload, including NIHL and other disease claims, while making a real impact on clients’ outcomes.
- Play a key role in shaping team strategy, mentoring junior colleagues, and identifying opportunities for innovation and growth.
- Join a dynamic, supportive, and sociable team with excellent career development opportunities
Key Responsibilities
- Overall conduct of allocated matters fixing strategy and liaising directly with clients
- Responsibility for Assistants & their development
- Ensure adherence with court timetables by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
- Ensuring experts are instructed in sufficient time by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
- Attending conferences with Counsel and clients
- Dealing with routine correspondence
- Compliance with MI
- To ensure compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations
- Adhere to the Keoghs Values
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Demonstrates strong technical proficiency in handling NIHL disease claims as a Strong technical proficiency in NIHL claims; experience in other disease matters is a plus.
- Effective negotiator with excellent interpersonal, listening, and communication skills.
- Highly self-motivated, able to prioritise, organise, and work under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
- Proactive contributor to team growth, sharing knowledge, supporting training, and improving processes.
Job Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) – will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death in Service
- Critical Illness Cover
- PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
- Pension Contribution based 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
* after successfully completing probation
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