Solicitor/Associate - Clinical Risk

A role in our Clinical Risk team presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and passionate individual to join an award-winning, progressive and highly specialised team.

Our clinical risk team is pre-eminent. We are the largest group of specialist clinical negligence lawyers in the country and we operate at the cutting edge of the law. Examples of our work in the past 5 years include:

• Acting on a range of high-profile group actions spanning topics such as mental health, medical devices and rogue doctors;
• Appearing in four cases before the Supreme Court;
• Advising our clients (which include NHS Resolution, other public bodies, private indemnifiers and international healthcare businesses) on a wide range of claims, some of which are valued at more than £30m.

We provide high quality training, support and mentoring to ensure that our colleagues are supported in their work, and to help them develop into and remain the best solicitors in the sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Handling a challenging but fulfilling caseload of defendant clinical negligence work acting for a variety of clients, which may include work for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, MDU, independent providers, and medical malpractice insurers.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• A qualified Solicitor with a background in defendant/claimant clinical negligence or defendant personal injury
• Experience at an NHS Resolution panel firm is ideal
• Strong technical and organisational skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling a variety of clinical negligence claims simultaneously through our case management system.
• Highly focused on our clients' needs; able to adopt a commercial perspective, while also maintaining the academic rigour required for dealing with the complex, challenging and novel issues we face in many of our cases.

About DAC Beachcroft

We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are 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 Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies

DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com