Litigation Assistant| EL|PL

Job description
Kennedys is looking for a Litigation Assistant to work on complex liability and injury matters mostly within employers and public liability. The successful candidate will handle a range of claims and be able to assist to a high level on larger claims. Ideally a working knowledge of coverage is required.

Team

Our national practice services personal injury claims from seven office locations across the UK. The Birmingham team is a major force in the local market and is ranked in the top tier for defendant personal injury by the legal directories. 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
• Loss adjusters
• EL/PL insurers
• Corporate insurers

Cases
• Mixed value, non-volume, up to high multi-track
• SME insureds
• Leisure and Retail industries
• Construction
• Claims involving care homes
• Special educational schools
• Defective premises/Property
• Product liability
• Occupiers liability
• Both pre-litigation and litigated files.

Required experience
• 1 – 2 years EL/PL experience*
• Defendant litigation experience
• Litigation experience of assisting up to high multi-track defence work (Not essential)

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
• 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.