Senior Clinical Negligence Lawyer

We are recruiting for a Senior Clinical Negligence Lawyer for a Merseyside based law firm.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Experience of handling medical negligence claims
  • Previous supervisory or management experience
  • Good IT skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Commercial perspective

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

  • To risk assess claims coming into the Medical Negligence Department
  • To look for winners in those case & set out the ‘roadmap’ of case direction, to include, but not limited to-
    • Indicate which medical speciality to instruct
    • Specify which questions are to be put to which experts
    • Specify whether full or screening reports are required
    • Review and consider the sufficiently of the light pagination   (LP)
    • Indicate what they are to report upon eg. breach or causation or breach & causation
    • Indicate succinct but clear parameters for the expert to report on & specific questions to be raised where necessary
  • To identify the correct defendants & record on the RA. Maintain an ongoing watching brief in relation to the correct identification of defendants
  • Ensure correct & sufficient records have been obtained & give instructing in relation to any missing documents or in relation to inadequate LP’s
  • Advise on medical & legal issues & support junior colleagues whilst not engaging in the activities to be delegated
  • Refer to the COLP areas of specific or general risk are identified at any time, which need to be considered or addressed.
  • To identify on risk assessments (RA) the relevant date of knowledge, record this in the case plan and record the reasons why the limitation period has been set to the date. Maintain an ongoing review of limitation throughout the lifespan of the claim.
  • Professionally & discreetly raise any training & cultural issues with the Medical Negligence Manager
  • Ensure limitation dates are identified & adequately prepared for in good time
  • Identifying at the earliest appropriate moment the need to prepare & send a letter of claim (LOC) & thereafter (but not limited to)
    • Set out in the RA the allegations of negligence to be put forward
    • Review & propose amendments to the draft LOC within 48 hours
  • Advise on tactics in relation on litigation, applications (including but not limited to PAD applications) & commercial settlements thereafter.
  • Maintain an eye to appropriate WIP generation & the avoidance of non-progressive & hence potentially unrecoverable WIP

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE ROLE

  • Experience of handling medical negligence claims
  • Previous supervisory or management experience
  • Good IT skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Commercial perspective

For more information on this role, please contact [email protected]