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Recoveries Litigator

Keoghs LLP
Posted 16 hours ago, valid for a month
Location

Bolton, Lancashire BL6 4PS, England

Salary

£26,000 - £31,200 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The role is for a litigator in the Recoveries department, focusing on managing a portfolio of litigated cases for insurer clients.
  • Candidates should have experience in a legal environment, preferably with quantum negotiations, and must demonstrate strong organizational and communication skills.
  • The position requires 2-5 years of relevant experience and offers a salary of £35,000 to £45,000 per year.
  • Working hours are 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with a primary location in Bolton.
  • Benefits include 25 days holiday, a healthcare cash plan, and a pension contribution among others.
Description

Are you a talented litigator with a passion for recoveries? Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a dynamic team where your expertise will make a tangible impact? If so we want to hear from you!The Recoveries department deal with pursuing subrogated recoveries on behalf of a number of insurer clients. This is a new role in our litigation team. The purpose of the role is to effectively manage a portfolio of Delegated (DA) litigated cases to review and submit to the Court in terms of litigation.

Key Accountabilities
  • Organising, prioritising and handling own workload in line with standard operating procedures to ensure that critical dates are met and KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved.
  • Effective management of the litigation process to ensure KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved:
  • Adhering to all Court deadlines
  • Drafting of court documents
  • Liaising with the policyholder including drafting 
  • Effective use of the case management system 
  • Reserving and all other key information is accurate and updated in a timely manner.
  • Critical dates are met
  • All actions/strategies are documented by way of a file note
  • All documents in the history are clearly labelled
  • Delivering quality work, as a minimum meeting audit benchmark standards.
  • Driving own personal development.
  • Contributes to team effort by working collaboratively to ensure that team targets are achieved and by positively contributing to team morale.

Working Hours  

35 hours per week

Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch.

Primary location for this role is Bolton

Experience, Skills and Qualifications
  • Experience of working in a legal environment.
  • Preferably experience of quantum negotiations.
  • Demonstrate experience of and the ability to:
  • Work to set deadlines
  • Deal with calls and enquiries from customers, suppliers and/or the public
  • Organise and prioritise their workload
  • Work as part of a team
  • IT literate: proficient in use of Microsoft Office packages (Excel and Word)
  • Excellent listening and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure 
  • Ability to take constructive feedback and set personal goals for continuous improvement.

Values 

Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our four values are at the heart of everything we do; 

Our Values

We are connected 

We are Dynamic

We are Innovative 

We succeed together 

Benefits
  • 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days) 
  • 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 – after 1 years’ service
  • Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer 
  • 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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