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Job Description

Assistant Litigation ExecutiveFletchers Solicitors Ltd have a fantastic opportunity for an experience Assistant Litigation Execution to join the growing Medical Negligence team!Location: Southport/ Manchester/ Leeds/Liverpool/HybridIf you are looking for a new role in a growing company that offers a great work life balance, fabulous benefits, and will support you and your goals, then this could be the role for you!Fletchers specialises in Medical Negligence, and we are looking for someone who wants to play a key role in supporting teams across the department ensuring that allocated are conducted in a proactive and commercially focussed manner with a real focus onreducing backlogs and creating consistency of approach.This position will comprise of 25% working on a small number of cases within the team and 75% of the time supporting other teams. The role is hybrid but some travel to Manchester, Liverpool and Southport as needed.The ideal candidate would have:

• Excellent organisational skills and time management
• Versatile so they can pick up cases from others and pull key points of where to focus.
• Ability to adapt to unknown cases, understand and progress it.
• Ability to adapt to unknown cases, understand it and progress it.
• Good IT skills especially in respect of Microsoft Office packages
• Ability to work as part of team and ability to support change effectively.
• Customer service experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent attention to detais

In return Fletchers can offer:

• A bonus scheme paid yearly (subject to targets being met)
• Pension scheme with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option
• Life Assurance Policy
• Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical, and other medical expenses.
• 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days,
• holiday per year,
• Long service award 3 days extra holidays after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment.
• Enhanced company sick and maternity pay scheme
• Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work-life balance
• Varied calendar of funded company social events

Our People:Our people are at the heart of everything we do! We take pride in the results gained for our clients and go the extra mile to get justice.Fletchers are an employer of choice, rated a top 80 Law Firm by the Times. Our culture drives our employees to achievethe best, not only for the customers but for their own growth, development, and wellbeing.So much has happened in the last year at Fletchers:

• We became Fletchers Group following several acquisitions - and have big plans for more growth.
• We offered legal colleagues more training contracts than ever before.
• Retained excellent rankings with both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners
• We opened 2 new office locations in Leeds and Liverpool (alongside Southport and Manchester)
• We launched our first ever Associate and Partner programmes for senior lawyers.
• We launched the Fletchers Foundation charity to support injured people.

Thats just to name a few, check out our website for more!Main Responsibilities:

• Ensure cases are progressed in a timely, efficient, and proactive manner.
• Drafting correspondence as required
• Co-ordinating the progression of cases with all internal and external parties
• Providing support to the team as required
• Reviewing case and drafting a thorough witness statement as required
• Instructing an appropriate medical expert to prepare reports as directed by the Team Leader
• Assisting the team with case progression as and when required such as assisting in drafting of Letter of Claims obtaining quantum evidence and negotiating settlement.

Desirable qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Law degree or working towards this or experience working in a legal environment.
• Experience working with Proclaim, or a case management system.

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