Job Description

Solicitor - Casualty Injury - Northern Ireland
Application Deadline: 11 July 2025
Department: CSG - Casualty (EL/PL / CAT PI / Disease / Fraud / Motor / Credit Hire)
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Belfast
Description
We have an opportunity for an experienced solicitor to join our Northern Ireland Casualty Injury team based in Belfast.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop a career with a market-leading law firm, with the successful candidates handling a varied caseload including all types of employers' liability, public liability, and disease claims.
We advise insurers and corporate clients in the defence of claims of all values, types, and complexity. Our National team, whose clients are a mix of leading names in the insurance industry as well as household name corporates, deal with all aspects of defendant litigation, to include catastrophic injury, clinical negligence, motor, casualty, disease, product, professional negligence and health and safety. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.
What you will do?

• Running, and assisting with a varied case load of pre-litigation and litigated work. These will include cases where liability is disputed.
• Supervision responsibilities within the team.
• Hit, maintain and apply a consistent approach to all individual targets of financial performance, realisation rates, settlement rate and average claim spend.
• Support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training.
• Maintain an awareness of firm's procedures and strategies.
• Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications.
• Handling confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.

Who you are

• A Solicitor with a keen interest and enthusiasm for employers and public liability personal injury defence litigation and disease claims to include NIHL and asbestos claims.
• You must be able to demonstrate and have at least 5 years' experience in relation to Northern Ireland employers liability, public liability or disease claims.
• Able to adopt a commercial perspective to legal issues with a concern for quality of service.
• A confident communicator who can communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form.
• Excellent organisational skills and able to effectively prioritise and manage own workload.
• Detail conscious and able to produce work to a high standard.
• Able to work on own initiative as well as to work with and learn from supervisors and other members of the department.
• A team player with a flexible and self-motivated approach.
• Demonstrates alignment with the Firm's Cultural Principles (Clear, Creative, Determined and Supportive).

What's in it for you?

• High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://jobs.dacbeachcroft.com/whats-in-it-for-you/
• A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
• Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
• In person and remote social events
• Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!