Junior Associate - National PI
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Finance and investment analysts and advisers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£45,800
(£23.49 per hour)
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Description
Department: Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes – National Professional Indemnity
Location: Bristol
Role: Junior Associate
The Team
Our National Professional Indemnity team is made up of a broad range of experts across UK offices. The NPI team has a very broad range of work with the professional, financial and management liability space, including but not limited to solicitors; accountants; IFAs, wealth-managers, pensions administrators and financial institutions; major insurance broking houses; surveyors; architects; D&O; and miscellaneous professions. The core of the NPI team’s work is acting for professionals and their insurers in the defence of civil liability claims against them, as well as on regulatory/disciplinary matters and coverage. Our national Professional Indemnity team handle complex regulatory investigations and litigation, while advising on a range of coverage matters, including identifying key trigger points for insurance protection.
The Role
As an Associate in Clyde & Co’s National Professional Indemnity team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality legal services across a broad spectrum of professional liability matters. Working within one of the market-leading practices for insurance and professional risk, you will manage a diverse caseload involving claims against professionals such as solicitors, accountants, financial advisers, construction consultants, brokers, and other regulated practitioners.
The role involves handling complex, multi-party disputes—both litigated and pre-action—alongside policy coverage issues and advisory work for major insurers, Lloyd’s syndicates, and corporate clients. You will be expected to run files independently while also contributing to larger, strategically important matters under partner guidance.
Essential Skills & Experience
Location: Bristol
Role: Junior Associate
The Team
Our National Professional Indemnity team is made up of a broad range of experts across UK offices. The NPI team has a very broad range of work with the professional, financial and management liability space, including but not limited to solicitors; accountants; IFAs, wealth-managers, pensions administrators and financial institutions; major insurance broking houses; surveyors; architects; D&O; and miscellaneous professions. The core of the NPI team’s work is acting for professionals and their insurers in the defence of civil liability claims against them, as well as on regulatory/disciplinary matters and coverage. Our national Professional Indemnity team handle complex regulatory investigations and litigation, while advising on a range of coverage matters, including identifying key trigger points for insurance protection.
The Role
As an Associate in Clyde & Co’s National Professional Indemnity team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality legal services across a broad spectrum of professional liability matters. Working within one of the market-leading practices for insurance and professional risk, you will manage a diverse caseload involving claims against professionals such as solicitors, accountants, financial advisers, construction consultants, brokers, and other regulated practitioners.
The role involves handling complex, multi-party disputes—both litigated and pre-action—alongside policy coverage issues and advisory work for major insurers, Lloyd’s syndicates, and corporate clients. You will be expected to run files independently while also contributing to larger, strategically important matters under partner guidance.
Essential Skills & Experience
- We are ideally looking for a candidate with a minimum of 1 PQE. Please note that our PQE levels are a guide and all suitable candidates will be considered.
- The ideal candidate would hold previous experience acting on a range of coverage disputes and advisory matters in the financial, professional and management lines space.
- Hold strong knowledge of the FCA-regulated space and FOS procedure with previous experience working on financial lines and coverage matters.
- Display intellectual versatility and a breath of experience across various coverage and liability matters.
- Display excellent technical legal skills including drafting and strategy management, as well as managing and prioritising a full and varied caseload and supporting in practice management.
- Have connections with clients in the insurance market and have started building a profile and network of contacts and potential clients. Ideally, will have
- Be an excellent team player, positively contributing to the team in respect of all Clyde & Co competencies (listed below).
- The Solicitors Act 1974 requires practicing solicitors to have a practicing certificate.
When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.
Our Commitment
Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.
A Note on Privacy
Please take a moment to read our privacy notice.. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.
If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.
This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.
A Note on Privacy
Please take a moment to read our privacy notice.. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.
If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.
This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.