Assistant Lawyer - Industrial Disease

  • Keoghs LLP
  • Bolton, Lancashire
  • Oct 28, 2025
Full time Legal

Job Description

To support a Complex Disease Lawyer to manage and progress claims in accordance with appropriate strategies to secure desired outcomes for clients at appropriate levels of profitability. The Assistant will be supporting a Complex Disease Lawyer on a variety of complex disease cases.

Key Accountabilities
  • Reviewing documents and preparing reports
  • Dealing with disclosure
  • Reviewing evidence (including medical / personnel records)
  • Conducting investigations with Insured / obtaining witness statements
  • Instructing Counsel / Experts
  • Research
  • Drafting generally
  • Attending conferences and Trials with Counsel
  • Dealing with routine correspondence
  • Court appointments.
  • Liaising with and taking instructions from Insurers and Insureds
  • Ensure adherence to Court timetables
  • Adhere to the Keoghs Values

Experience, Skills and Qualifications
  • Technically proficient in dealing with a range of mixed disease cases
  • Effective negotiator
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Flexibility in relation to tasks undertaken
  • Good listening and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to maintain concentration and pay attention to detail
  • Ability to self-organise and self-prioritise
  • Ability to work under pressure and to target
  • An enthusiastic and hardworking individual
  • Good level of IT skills

Benefits
  • 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

after successfully completing probation