Senior Associate (Professional Indemnity) Job Introduction Are you looking for a role offering intellectual challenge, client-focus and industry-leading quality, without compromising on genuine flexibility?
An opportunity in our Professional and Commercial Risk team may be for you.
We're seeking a Senior Associate with Professional Indemnity experience to join the team in Leeds.
You'll play an active role in the continued growth and success of the team, in collaboration with our wider practice in the North, nationally and internationally.
Our team acts for all of the main Insurance companies and Insured professionals in the supply chain, and deals with the full spectrum of Insurance work from Policy cover, recovery and strategic advice to Insurers.
Join a truly international firm where collaboration across disciplines fuels variety and creative problem-solving for high-caliber clients.
You'll be empowered to build your own client relationships, directly see your impact, and deliver bespoke solutions.
Main Responsibilities The opportunity to interact on a regular basis with clients.
You will share your knowledge of key issues and provide meaningful advice and support.
A mixed workload of professional negligence claims involving a wide variety of professionals.
Responsibility for conducting both pre-action and litigated matters, providing real-time project support.
Your own caseload to handle, alongside providing support to our Partners and supervising more junior fee earners.
A good understanding and experience of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation.
Direct engagement with experts and counsel, directing our work with both.
The Ideal Candidate ~6+ years PQE, with professional indemnity expertise Strong relationship and client handling skills, commensurate with experience The ability to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day-to-day issues A good level of self-sufficiency, managing a caseload commensurate with experience Change oriented, with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives Team-oriented and collegiate, with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team A willingness to work hard as part of a highly ambitious and driven team About DAC Beachcroft We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities.
We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities.
We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies.
We act for nearly all of the top 20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK's top five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.
In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with us Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work.
Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture.
We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team.
At DACB, we don't just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them.
From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual.
Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the 'whole you' to work.
So, if you're good at what you do, come as you are!
We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role.
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