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Job title: Court of Protection/PI Trusts Legal Executive/Solicitor
Our client is an award-winning niche client law firm based in Leighton Buzzard. It has been helping individuals and families throughout Bedfordshire and Nationwide for many years. Most of their clients have been with them for decades and 95% of their clients said they were likely or certain to recommend them.... interested?
Their dedicated teams offer specialist legal advice in the areas of Court of Protection, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Medical Negligence, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Trusts, Probate, Residential Conveyancing and Wills.
The Role
They are urgently looking for a Court of Protection Specialist with a minimum of 3 years + relevant experience to join their well-established and fast growing team.
Their Court of Protection and PI Trusts team has seen significant growth and quality in instructions due to the firm’s commitment to exceptional standards in Client Care and in their quest to maintain high standards they now have an opening for an excellent fee earner who is as passionate as they are about protecting their clients’ interests. The team’s niche focus is to act for clients who have suffered an acquired brain injury and who have then received a high level of damages to fund their extensive needs. This is a great opportunity for an experienced practitioner who wishes to progress their career further and to grow with this firm.
The successful candidate will be working closely with the Heads of Department and other members of the team. Prior experience within the general Private Client areas of work would be an advantage.
Core Duties
- Day to day running of the Professional Deputyship matters with minimal supervision
- Day to day running of the Personal Injury Trusts matters with minimal supervision
- Contributing to marketing their services and the firm’s corporate objectives
- Undertaking any relevant and associated duties as directed
- Keeping skill set up-to-date and continually improving knowledge base required for Court of Protection and Personal Injury Trusts, and remaining Lexcel compliant.
Qualifications
Candidates must be Qualified Solicitors or Legal Executives, with a Minimum of 3 years PQE with a proven track record of extensive and relevant experience.
Skills
- Confident communicator, persuasive and commercially astute.
- Excellent Client Care skills and a Team player in a professionally diverse team.
- Computer literate with experience of case management systems (ALB) useful, and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to work autonomously, producing high quality work with minimum supervision.
- Excellent time management and strong prioritisation skills.
- Efficient fee earner, able to manage own caseload with minimum supervision.
- Good business development skills and comfortable with networking.
- Efficient time recording and file management skills.
- Good mentor and ability to delegate to more junior team members.
Start Date: ASAP
Salary: INRO £50-60kpa dep on exp
Holidays: 25 days plus Bank Holidays - Closed for Christmas
Hybrid working
Excellent Staff Benefits
Staff cash plan for health
Career progression/Annual leave increase
Time of service - Annual leave increase
Free legal fees
Company pension
Study leave
Work events
Progression opportunities
Supportive working environment
Ongoing Training & Development
Hours of Business: 9-5.30pm Monday to Friday One hour for lunch
Car parking on site - rota basis + car parking amenities close by.
If you are searching for an established and proactive law firm that can support you/your work/life balance and where you can grow with the firm and be part of their team, then look no further.
Skills & Exp: 3+ yrs PQE Legal Executive/Solicitor who has experience in Court of Protection, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Medical Negligence, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Trusts, Probate, Residential Conveyancing and Wills.
*Legals 4 Lawyers will try and respond to all applications for the role within 72hours. However, we experience high volumes of applications and if you have not heard from us within this period of time, unfortunately your application will not have been successful. Thank you and good luck.
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