Solicitor (Professional Indemnity)

As a newly qualified solicitor, you'll act as a key player in our expanding team, working with the main insurance companies and insured professionals on a diverse range of insurance matters. You'll engage directly with clients, manage complex professional negligence and Contractors All Risks claims, and gain hands-on experience with both pre-action and litigated cases. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your expertise in alternative dispute resolution and case management, while collaborating closely with experts and senior colleagues. If you're driven, client-focused, and eager to contribute to a dynamic team, this is your chance to make a significant impact and advance your career in a supportive and ambitious environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Regular interaction with clients, sharing your knowledge of key issues and providing meaningful advice and support.


• A mixed workload of professional negligence claims involving a wide variety of professionals, plus an opportunity for involvement in Contractors All Risks claims.


• Conduct both pre-action and litigated matters, providing real-time project support, as well as assisting more senior fee earners.


• Direct engagement with experts and counsel, directing our work with both.
  
  Due to our growth and the reshaping strategy, we welcome qualified solicitors with existing litigation experience, in any discipline. We are open-minded about the qualification level of the candidates we see: we are most interested in what you think you can bring to the role and the team, and whether we are the right fit for you., Have strong relationship and client handling skills, with the ability to confidently and professionally manage day-to-day issues.


• Able to demonstrate a good level of self-sufficiency, balancing confidence with an awareness of own competence/authority.


• Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.


• Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.


• Willingness to work hard as part of a highly ambitious and driven team to help it continue to develop and to achieve its objectives.
  
  We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're 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 Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don't just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the 'whole you' to work. So if you're good at what you do, come as you are!