Senior Associate, Professional Liability

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Kennedys is looking for a Senior Associate to join our leading Professional Liability Team in London where you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most experienced and respected professional liability practitioners in the market.

We are interested in speaking to candidates with Professional Indemnity experience, or Commercial Litigation experience. If you are interested in working in a supportive environment with ambitious colleagues we would love to hear from you.

Team

Kennedys' Professional Liability Team deals with all areas of professional liability and handles claims of all sizes and complexity. We comprise approximately 40 fee earners in London. Our team also operates from regional centres of excellence in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Bristol.

The Gracechurch report describes Kennedys as the market leader in the London insurance market and ranked first for overall client service quality. We have also been ranked as market leader across all 14 individual service attributes, performing particularly strongly on international coverage, strong teams and insurance expertise.
Clients

Our clients include all major insurers in the professional indemnity market, professional services firms (both in England and overseas) and mutual insurers underwriting risk in specific market sectors. We are currently handling some of the largest claims in the market against solicitors and barristers, and also act for insurance brokers, accountants, financial professionals, IT professionals, property professionals and many others.
Cases

We are handling multiple cases where the sums in dispute are in excess of £200m. Cases handled in London are invariably complex, involve multiple parties and engage numerous stakeholders including the professional services firm itself, primary insurers and excess layers.

Allied with our defence practice is our coverage practice. We are presently instructed by insurers in respect of some of the most difficult coverage issues arising out of professional indemnity policies including aggregation, attachment and rights of repudiation and avoidance.

Required experience

• 5+ years' UK Qualified Solicitor or CILEX qualified with the relevant experience*
• Familiar with professional indemnity policies and coverage issues, or alternatively experience within Commercial Litigation.
• Experience of assisting on large cases in a team environment
• Previous client contact and attendance at business development events

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

* where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 45 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.