Associate, Catastrophic Injury, 3+ PQE
Company
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/2/2025
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Description
Kennedys is seeking an experienced Associate to join our catastrophic injury defendant personal injury team based in our Manchester office. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on complex and high-value cases, providing expert legal support and representation to our clients.
The successful candidate will have a strong background in defendant employers' liability, public liability, and motor claims. You will be responsible for managing a diverse caseload of catastrophic injury cases, ensuring that each case is handled with the utmost care and professionalism.
Team
Kennedys' Serious and Catastrophic Injury team is a Legal 500 Tier 1 ranked team handling large loss and catastrophic injury claims for a range of clients arising out of motor, EL and PL accidents. The team handles cases of the utmost severity including brain injury, spinal injury, amputations, polytrauma, brachial plexus injury, severe psychiatric injury, chronic pain and loss of senses across insurers, self-insureds organisations and third party administrators.
We act on complex and high-profile cases, led by experienced Partners recognized as market leaders in this sector. We are often instructed on UK cases requiring cross-border quantum investigations via our international offices.
We avoid unnecessary lawyering and are focused on working in partnership with our clients and delivering modern solutions, including our in-house R&D capability and award-winning product suite of technological and process innovations.
Clients
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
The successful candidate will have a strong background in defendant employers' liability, public liability, and motor claims. You will be responsible for managing a diverse caseload of catastrophic injury cases, ensuring that each case is handled with the utmost care and professionalism.
Team
Kennedys' Serious and Catastrophic Injury team is a Legal 500 Tier 1 ranked team handling large loss and catastrophic injury claims for a range of clients arising out of motor, EL and PL accidents. The team handles cases of the utmost severity including brain injury, spinal injury, amputations, polytrauma, brachial plexus injury, severe psychiatric injury, chronic pain and loss of senses across insurers, self-insureds organisations and third party administrators.
We act on complex and high-profile cases, led by experienced Partners recognized as market leaders in this sector. We are often instructed on UK cases requiring cross-border quantum investigations via our international offices.
We avoid unnecessary lawyering and are focused on working in partnership with our clients and delivering modern solutions, including our in-house R&D capability and award-winning product suite of technological and process innovations.
Clients
- Large Composite Insurers
- Corporates
- Construction
- EL/PL and Motor Insurers
- Loss Adjusters
- Catastrophic Injury including brain and spinal injuries
- Multi-track and Large Loss
- EL/PL
- Chronic pain
- Fundamental dishonesty
- Both Pre-litigation and Litigated files
- 3+ years' UK Qualified Solicitor or CILEX qualified with the relevant experience*
- Litigation experience of catastrophic injury defence work
- Previous client contact and attendance at business development events
- Supervision and deputy team management experience
- Experience of negotiation
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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