Kennedys is seeking a proactive, detail-focused Litigation Assistant to join our market-leading Manchester Casualty and Corporate Claims team. You'll support Partners and fee earners on a varied portfolio of complex liability and injury claims, including employers' liability and public liability cases. This is an opportunity to take real responsibility, develop your technical knowledge and work with leading specialists on high-value, high-profile cases.

This is a role for someone who thrives on responsibility, enjoys collaborating with leading experts, and takes pride in delivering exceptional client service. You'll be proactive, detail-driven, and comfortable managing multiple moving parts while maintaining strong, trusted relationships with clients. A working understanding of coverage, sharp analytical thinking skills, and confident problem-solving abilities are required.

Team

Our national practice handles personal injury claims from seven offices across the UK. The Manchester team is a recognised market leader - ranked top tier for defendant personal injury - and regularly instructed on complex, high-value, and high-profile matters.

Working alongside Partners who are widely regarded as industry leaders, you'll also gain exposure to UK cases involving cross-border quantum issues through our international network.

We focus on partnership, not process. That means avoiding unnecessary lawyering and embracing modern, efficient solutions-including our in-house R&D capability and award-winning suite of legal technology.
Clients

• Insurers
• Corporates
• Loss adjusters

Cases

• Mixed-value, non-volume claims up to high multi-track
• Employers' liability / Public liability
• Multi-defendant and Part 20 claims
• Construction, manufacturing, leisure, and retail sector matters
• Defective premises and property claims
• Product liability
• Both pre-litigation and litigated files

What We're Looking For

• 1-2 years' employers and public liability claims experience*
• Detailed knowledge around various types of Litigation
• Personal injury experience within a claimant or defendant role
• Basic policy coverage knowledge
• Ability to manage a varied caseload
• Confident client communication

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 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world 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, distinctive and ambitious. 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.