28/02/2018 |
Role Profile Level 1L |
Not applicable |
Permanent |
Full-time
(Monday to Friday 9am to 5.00pm)
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Claims |
Large Loss Midlands |
Birmingham |
Weightmans is a Top 45 law firm with offices throughout the UK. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards and achieved record rankings in Chambers UK 2017, we are immensely proud of the work we carry out for our clients and the culture we provide to our people. |
Our national Large Loss team provides an expert, experienced legal service dealing with claims involving injuries of the utmost severity and more complex technical insurance work. Weightmans’ Large Loss team handles claims reserved at a minimum of £500,000, representing around £750 million of client reserves. The majority of claims we deal with are motor, but we also cover employers’ liability, public liability and product liability, as well as substantial dependency fatality claims. Typical cases involve brain, spinal and amputation injuries. |
The role
- To provide support to the designated fee earners within the team by processing typing, managing clients and undertaking amounts of admin as appropriate.
- To assist the rest of the team during busy times and at times of low staff numbers. This may consist of working for other fee earners or even for other teams.
- To work closely with the support team manager and admin assistant to ensure the work is completed within the agreed service level agreements and to corporate standards
Main duties and responsibilities
- Process all dictation received from the designated fee earners along with any work allocated by the support team manager.
- Strive to become familiar with files’ progress with ability to extractlocate papers.
- Create various correspondence and documents under direction.
- Achieve and maintain a high level of accuracy.
- Adhere to the service levels within the team and ensure work is completed within these levels at all times.
- Liaise with the support team manager over any queries and problems.
- Liaise with the admin assistant to effectively manage workload by identifying filing / copying / admin tasks to be undertaken.
- Work in accordance with the Values of the Firm.
- Be responsible for own professional development.
- Make the support team manager aware of any capacity, particularly in respect of high priority work.
- Deal with confidential client matters.
- Provide assistance, where appropriate, in the billing process or archiving files.
- Resolve minor IT problems and have proficient knowledge of Case Manager system.
This list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will be expected to perform other duties and have other responsibilities that fall within the wider remit of the role. |
- Extensive legal secretarial experience who is pro-active and works well under pressure
- Fast, accurate typist with good audio typing skills.
- Ability to create and amend large, complicated documents (ie automatic numbering, track changes etc).
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.
Good teamwork skills. |
Please note:
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Any reference to experience or PQE in our adverts or job descriptions is to be used as a guideline only. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and with different levels of experience who can demonstrate that they fulfil the requirements of the role.
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The successful candidate appointed to this role will be subject to our standard background checking process, and any offer of employment made is conditional upon successful completion of those checks. Further details can be obtained from the Recruitment team.
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