Senior Associate (5-7 PQE) - Healthcare Law - Dublin
Job Introduction
DAC Beachcroft Dublin's Healthcare (law) Team is looking to recruit a qualified (5 year PQE) Senior Associate to join their team on a full-time, permanent, hybrid basis in DAC Beachcroft's Dublin office.
This is a fee-earning position for qualified legal professionals with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
DAC Beachcroft Dublin is a full-service Law Firm with 100 colleagues. Our team of partners, lawyers, and support staff work together to provide a client-led service, which responds swiftly and effectively to all matters. Since the inception of our Dublin office, we have established ourselves as one of Ireland's fastest-growing and most recognized firms. We have achieved this by providing a unique offering that can be tailored to the specific requirements of each of our clients.
Our Healthcare Team has been an integral part of this growth and our firm's success and it is once again expanding. The Team acts for a wide variety of healthcare providers and practitioners including GPs, Consultants, private hospitals, private medical clinics, dentists, diagnostic clinics, aesthetic clinics, laboratories, and their Insurers. We provide advice on the defense of clinical negligence claims, regulatory advice on the changing legislative landscape, and proactive sector-specific advice which will ultimately minimize the possibility of claims arising or put our clients in the best position to defend themselves if they do.
Role Responsibility
Main responsibilities will include:
* Handling a caseload mainly focused on defending and advising on medical negligence claims and advisory services to Healthcare entities and practitioners.
* Becoming a trusted advisor for our clients and strengthening our connections with them through providing ongoing support and advice.
* Playing a vital role in the development and promotion of the Team and the Firm through business development, networking, and profile-raising activities, including contributing to marketing, training, and knowledge sharing within the team and throughout the firm.
* Assisting the associates and partners in the day-to-day running of the office, overseeing the associated administrative tasks as and when appropriate.
* Working closely with our colleagues in our other offices (particularly in the UK and Madrid) to develop cross-border opportunities to assist and support our global client base in the Healthcare Sector.
* Handling confidential information in line with the firm’s data security protocols.
The Ideal Candidate
* Qualified solicitor in Ireland ideally with significant post-qualification experience.
* Experience in the insurance litigation market is necessary.
* Medical Negligence experience is essential.
* Experience at Inquests is an advantage.
* Experience of using alternative forms of dispute resolution.
* Strong technical skill and an ability to understand and work through issues.
* A demonstrable ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues and to be client-focused.
* Ability to operate at a high level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
* Change-oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives and a willingness to assist in the success of DAC Beachcroft Dublin.
* Team-oriented and collegiate with experience of and willingness to mentor, coach, and supervise less experienced members of teams where appropriate.
* Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships, undertake client marketing, and influence at all levels.
* Strong organizational skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling claims.
About the Company
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health, and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognized for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work while recognizing that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals, and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!
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