Commercial Litigation Solicitor/Legal Executive Vacancy
Join the Lovetts Solicitors team as a Commercial Litigation Solicitor/Legal Executive
Job Title: Commercial Litigation Solicitor/Legal Executive
Location: Guildford Office
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Lovetts Solicitors is an innovative, market-leading law firm who specialise in commercial debt recovery and litigation. Based in modern offices on the outskirts of Guildford with ample parking, there is a Commercial Litigation Solicitor/Legal Executive vacancy in our focused, but friendly team.
Please email [email protected] with your CV and the role you are applying for.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Job Role:
Provision of defended legal services as a fee earner to the Company’s clients in an efficient, cost effective and user-friendly manner.
To be a key player in the development of the department and the Company, in building revenue, reputation and relationships with clients.
Key Objectives:
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- Fee earning in Commercial debt recovery and litigation
- Building quality Client relations and achieving a consistent quality service
- Supervision of support staff
Responsibilities:
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- Achievement of costs targets
- Client satisfaction
- Maintenance of clients by client visits and contact
- Business development
- Good staff relations
- Improvement in systems
Knowledge:
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- Legal qualifications
- Detailed knowledge of procedure of civil litigation
- Knowledge of up to date insolvency procedures
Skills:
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- Tactical and negotiation skills
- Organisational skills
- A good attitude together with good ‘people’ skills including confidence and tact
- Creativity
- Clear thinking and commercial awareness
- Advocacy
- Oral and written communication skills
- Basic managerial competence
- IT literate
Experience:
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- Processing debt recovery and commercial litigation matters, including
- Giving advice
- Drafting pleadings
- Advocacy
- Negotiation/ADR
- Experience with construction disputes preferable but not essential
- Dealing sympathetically with clients
- Interacting with other members of staff
Complexity & Creativity
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- Job requires solving of complex problems in relation to law, negotiations, the handling of client expectations and case management
- Obtaining satisfactory instructions from clients and effective communication of advice
- Will require a good attitude with commercial awareness and creative solutions to break through to a satisfactory solution of a case
- The mentally challenging aspect of the job is in all but the simplest cases. It includes the ‘managerial’ parts of it and is especially pronounced in advocacy and in writing
- Accountable to the Commercial Litigation Team Leader
Judgment & Decisions:
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- Considerable freedom to take own decisions (which in case of poor judgment could have adverse effect on company results) with regard to:
- Conduct of litigation
- Client care
- Exercise of good judgment can:
- Improve productivity and profitability of company
- Foster good client relations and generate repeat business
- Lead to introduction of new clients by recommendation
- Result in pleasant and well-ordered working environment
Operational Responsibility:
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- Guiding and assisting junior team members and support staff
- Support role in relation to Commercial Litigation Team Leader
- Expected to adopt pro-active approach to all areas of work including business development