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Job Title: Paralegal Term: Permanent Practice Area: Property Risk Solutions - Costs Location: Birmingham Job Reference: 2914 Overview of Practice Area/Background DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate. We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients' individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients' expectations. Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings. In 2009 we achieved certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and in 2011 we were awarded ISO27001 certification for our information security procedures. We are the largest law firm in the country to obtain a silver Investors in People award. The firm is committed to supporting the communities in which we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and via structured programmes including those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust. The Costs and Recoveries team obtains work from insurers and commercial clients. The Costs team comprises several distinct teams specialising in a specific area of costs (pre-litigation/post litigation challenges and recovery). The Costs Unit focuses on driving through our insurer clients' costs strategy and building and strengthening client relationships. Team members aim to build strong links and establish good rapport with the clients and claims handlers, which ensures that team members understand the clients businesses and exceed their expectations. The recoveries team makes recoveries from third parties who damage insured property (usually buildings or motor vehicles). The majority of the work is undertaken on no win no fee CFA arrangements. The Birmingham office is looking for bright and confident individuals with good communication skills to join the defendant costs team, focussing on litigated cases, most of which will involve costs up to 50,000. Core Responsibilities After initial training, you will have the responsibility of running your own case lade of costs matter, setting strategy on these and negotiating settlement/running to detailed assessment by the court. You will handle confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols. It is envisaged that as you gain experience you will increase your workload having more responsibility in running more complex and higher value cases. You will conduct work in line with client protocols, exceeding Cost Unit benchmarks and providing timely and accurate management information and billing whilst handling confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols. Key Skills The team are looking for a Paralegal, litigation experience is essential. A Law degree or equivalent is ideal, however we will consider candidates without a law degree if they have significant experience of acting as costs paralegal. Other requirements include: * Client focused with an ability to build strong relationships with internal and external clients; * Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure, dealing confidently with changing and conflicting priorities; * Confident communicator and negotiator; * Quality and customer service orientated; * Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision; * Flexible with an ability to adapt to rapid change, both internally and in the context of clients' businesses; * Team player with a collegiate approach to knowledge sharing and problem solving, particular in the case of multi-site clients which are supported across the team; * Whilst the vacancy is in the costs defendant team, the person must be prepared to work in other teams as required to meet the demands of the business. Application Details When applying for this vacancy please highlight your previous litigation experience in your covering letter/CV. DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV to us. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

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DAC Beachcroft LLP Don't show me jobs from DAC Beachcroft LLP

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Job Title: Solicitor / Legal Executive / Litigation Executive Practice Area: Claims Solutions - CVT Location: Birmingham Job Reference: 2956 Overview of Practice Area/Background DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate. We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients' individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients' expectations. Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings. In 2009 we achieved certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and in 2011 we were awarded ISO27001 certification for our information security procedures. We are the largest law firm in the country to obtain a silver Investors in People award. The firm is committed to supporting the communities in which we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and via structured programmes including those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust. We are currently looking to recruit experienced fee earners (Litigation Executives, Legal Executives or Solicitors) to join our Claims Validation team in Birmingham. The Claims Validation Team is our fastest growing team and is part of the Claims Solutions Group. The team deal with potential fraudulent claims, with a focus on motor and employer's liability/public liability work. Core Responsibilities You will be handling a varied caseload of pre litigation and litigated work. You will be required to exercise full compliance with client's SLAs, as well as our own internal protocols. There will also be immense opportunity for you to support on marketing and business development activities. Handling confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols. Key Skills We are looking for experienced Paralegals, Legal Executives or Solicitors who are able to demonstrate strong litigation skills, ideally gained within a personal injury environment. Previous fraud expertise is advantageous, but fraud training will be provided. You will be a team player, confident negotiator and communicator, as well an excellent litigator with first class analytical skills. You will be a great addition to this market leading team and will have enormous opportunity to develop your legal and business development skills. Application Details DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV to us. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.