Assistant File Handler - Employment

Application Deadline: 29 April 2025

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London UK

Description
This role offers an excellent development opportunity to work in the Legacy Employment Team undertaking both short-tail Legacy work, supporting a partner on primarily stress claims and discrimination claims, in addition to Employment Tribunal claims and employment law advisory work. You will be working with a recognized market leader in Disease and Employment Law assisting on, multi-party, highly sensitive/high profile cases. Aside from technical excellence, experience of stress claims, discrimination law or employment law is required. The role also includes the need to interface with sophisticated senior claims handlers in long-standing insurance clients, senior figures at insured and corporate clients and responsibility for enhancing and developing Keoghs profile.

Key Accountabilities

• Assisting partner on a mixed caseload of complex stress, discrimination and employment law claims with a view to handling own caseload
• Assisting with the progress each file from the receipt of papers, collating and reviewing documents, taking witness statements, drafting pleadings, advising clients on all aspects of claim handling (with partner support) to include advice on indemnity, liability and quantum issues and claims resolution strategy
• Make full use of the firm's Case Management System in progressing files from receipt to closure
• Attend hearings in person or by telephone, attend final hearings, settlement conferences etc. as required
• Assist in the provision of legal updates to clients and training both internally and to key clients
• As required, delegate appropriate work to team members
• Attend meetings with your Team Leader for the purpose of reviewing performance against targets in terms of chargeable hours, billing, WIP and the collection of client MI for your team

• Disease or employment file handling experience
• Positive, confident and enthusiastic
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent inter-personal and client care skills
• Excellent marketing skills
• Excellent IT skills
• High level of analytical skills
• Ability to prioritise work, keep to deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to win the trust and confidence of others
• Ability to make decisions
• Ability to anticipate problems and identify solutions
• Ability to maintain concentration and pay attention to detail
• Driven to achieve
• Good advocacy skills

• Personal Effectiveness
• Team Commitment : Values others perspective
• Resilience: Demonstrates self-control
• Passion for Growth and Improvement: Systematically improves performance
• Embracing Change: Responds positively to change

• Client Care: Works to add value for the client
• Decision Making
• Negotiation, Influence and Persuasion
• Commercial Insight: Considers and understands commercial implications

• Davies Incentive Plan
• 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
• Simply Health Care Cash Plan
• WeCare - 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
• Death In Service - after 1 years' service
• Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
• Employee Resource Groups
• Employee Volunteering Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Tech Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loan*
• Gym Flex*
• Access to Online Discount Sites
• Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
• Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
• Discounts at local retail outlets