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Large Loss Lawyer Complex Injury Team Location: Southampton (open to any Keoghs office location) Take Your Large Loss Career to the Next Level We're looking for a talented Large Loss Lawyer to join our highly regarded Complex Injury team at Keoghs . This is an opportunity to work on high-value, complex injury claims while developing your own caseload and building strong relationships with leading insurer clients. The role is primarily based in Southampton, however we are open to candidates based at any Keoghs office location. Why Join Us? Opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and rewarding large loss claims in the market.Exposure to claims valued from £five hundred thousand through to multi-million-pound catastrophic injury matters.Supportive and collaborative team environment.Opportunity to develop specialist expertise in large loss litigation.Flexible office location across the Keoghs network.Career development within a recognised market-leading defendant insurance practice.What You'll Be Doing You'll join a specialist team handling significant injury claims, managing your own caseload while supporting the Lead Lawyer on more complex matters. Your work will include: Managing your own EL / PL & RTA caseload of high-value multi-track injury claims.Assisting on complex and higher-value RTA/EL/PL claims, including catastrophic injury cases where claims are valued up to and exceeding £1 million.Advising insurer clients on liability, quantum, indemnity and litigation strategy.Drafting pleadings, defences and technical legal advice.Working closely with experts, counsel and insurer clients to achieve the best outcomes.Building and maintaining strong client relationships, with opportunities to generate and attract your own instructions if desired.What We're Looking For To be successful in this role, you'll have: Qualified Solicitor, CILEX Lawyer or equivalent relevant defendant injury litigation experience.Experience handling or assisting with injury claims valued at £500,000+ .A defendant insurance background .Previous experience of Ogden calculations and significant loss of earnings claims.Experience managing your own caseload autonomously with minimal supervision.Strong knowledge of EL/PL and RTA litigation .Experience dealing with complex liability, quantum and medical issues.Excellent communication skills and the confidence to build relationships with sophisticated insurer clients.The motivation and desire to assist and develop more junior members of the team in order to help their career advancement.Ready for Your Next Challenge? If you're a defendant injury lawyer with experience handling high-value claims and are looking to take the next step within a leading large loss team, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and join a team where you'll have the autonomy to run your own caseload, the support to develop your expertise, and the opportunity to work on some significant complex injury claims. We anticipate this role will be appointed up to Senior Associate level; however, this will ultimately depend on the successful candidates experience. We welcome applications from individuals across a range of experience levels, and the appropriate level will be discussed during the application and interview process. Job Benefits Davies Incentive Plan25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)Private Medical Insurance ( Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.Simply Health Care Cash PlanWeCare 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 wellbeingDeath in ServiceCritical Illness CoverPHI/Income Protection ( Private health insurance)Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% EmployerCycle to Work SchemeTech SchemeSeason Ticket LoanGym FlexAccess to Online Discount SitesDiscounted Gourmet Society MembershipDiscounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwideDiscounts at local retail outlets*after successfully completing probationAbout Keoghs Keoghs is a leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector. We manage more than £1bn worth of insurer claims and resolve in excess of 100,000 claims per year working in partnership with leading insurers, MGAs, brokers, corporates and the public sector. With more than 50 years experience we have an in-depth understanding of the insurance claims process, enabling us to contain and lower litigation rates, shorten claims lifecycles and reduce overall claims costs. We combine proven processes, technology and low cost infrastructure with extensive legal and insurance market knowledge. This enables us to create individual solutions for each of our clients that match their requirements in terms of quality, performance and value for money. We invest heavily in specialised services, technology and innovation for our insurance clients, and we are the first to launch a true artificial intelligence (AI) insurance lawyer. Through our proprietary AI lawyer, Lauri, weve transformed the claims handling process for low-value personal injury claims; weve reduced claim lifecycles and reduced costs for our clients. Supported by commercial acumen and innovative products, Keoghs leads the way in providing legal solutions to the insurance industry.TPBN1_UKTJ

Solicitor – Large Loss Personal Injury \n ?? Location: London | Southampton | Bristol | Leeds | Birmingham | Bolton | Manchester ?? Contract: Permanent ?? Working Pattern: Hybrid (minimum 1 day in office) \n We have an exciting opportunity for a Solicitor to join our Complex Injury Claims Team, handling high-value large loss personal injury claims. \n You will support a Lead Lawyer on catastrophic injury matters exceeding £1m, while also managing your own caseload of multi-track Employer Liability (EL), Public Liability (PL), and Road Traffic Accident (RTA) valued up to £1m. This is a fantastic role for a solicitor looking to develop their expertise in complex, high-value litigation within a supportive and highly experienced team. Key Responsibilities\n\n • Manage a caseload of complex multi-track injury claims (typically up to £1m)\n, • Assist on catastrophic injury claims exceeding £1m\n, • Advise insurer clients on liability, indemnity and quantum\n, • Draft key legal documents including defences and counter-schedules\n, • Analyse complex medical and liability evidence\n, • Work closely with clients, counsel and medical experts\n, • Attend mediations, JSMs, client meetings and site visits\nWhat we're looking for\n\n, • Qualified Solicitor\n, • Experience handling defendant personal injury claims\n, • Experience managing multi-track / higher value claims (minimum £500K)\n, • Strong understanding of litigation practice and Civil Procedure Rules\n, • Excellent analytical and organisational skills\n\n ? Desirable: Group litigation or claims against the police experience. Job Benefits\n What We Offer \n\n • Competitive salary\n, • Hybrid working\n, • 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with buy/sell options)\n, • Private medical insurance\n, • Critical illness cover\n, • Health cash plan\n, • Employer pension contribution\n, • Cycle to Work, Tech Scheme & Season Ticket Loan\n, • Gym Flex membership\n\n Join a firm where innovation, collaboration and development are at the heart of everything we do. \n ?? Interested? Apply now or get in touch for an informal conversation.

I'm currently partnering with a highly successful PE-backed business on the appointment of a Senior Legal Counsel. \n \n This is a rare opportunity for a contentious insurance lawyer with experience in personal or commercial insurance lines looking to move into a commercial, regulatory and strategic advisory work in a fast-moving environment. \n \n What makes this role particularly attractive is the longer-term trajectory. The business views legal as a strategic partner and is seeking someone with plans to grow into a future Head of Legal position. \n \n You'll work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, advising on a broad range of commercial and regulatory matters while helping to support the next phase of growth. \n \n Ideal for lawyers with: \n\n • 5+ years' PQE\n, • Strong insurance experience - contentious or non-contentious\n, • A keen interest in regulatory matters\n, • Excellent stakeholder management skills\n, • Ambitions to progress into legal leadership\n\n \n For a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, please contact: Asha Morzaria \n at ashamorzaria@taylorroot.com

What if you could earn more than a full-time General Counsel without the internal politics, fixed salary ceiling, or executive treadmill? \n \n We are helping experienced in-house lawyers in Southampton explore the fractional General Counsel business model. \n \n This is for senior lawyers who already advise founders, boards, executives, or leadership teams and are starting to wonder whether their skill set could become a high-value retained advisory practice of their own. \n \n Not a traditional employed role. \n Not a blind leap into business. \n A supported pathway into self-employment with structure, credibility, and business development support around you. \n \n What You’ll Receive \n\n • 100% of revenue paid directly to you\n, • Flexible contract structure\n, • Remote-first model\n, • Support to build a portfolio of retained clients\n, • A proven process to go from 1 retained client to 3+ over time\n\n \n Business Development Support from The SELL Life \n You receive: \n\n • Personalised strategy to position yourself as a retained strategic advisor\n, • Frameworks for packaging fractional GC services into monthly retainers\n, • Support to identify and approach the right client market\n, • Referral network of other self-employed lawyers\n, • Vendor discounts and member benefits that rival large firms\n, • Courses, templates, and playbooks for scaling a portfolio practice\n, • Live sessions to solve business development bottlenecks\n\n \n Who This Is For \n Senior in-house lawyers who: \n\n • Are already operating as strategic business partners\n, • Want more upside than a fixed executive salary\n, • Prefer influence over internal hierarchy\n, • Are confident advising founders, boards, executives, or business owners\n, • Want autonomy but do not want to build everything from scratch\n\n \n The Result \n Experienced counsel who move into fractional work can: \n\n • Replace or exceed their corporate salary\n, • Work across several growth-focused businesses\n, • Build long-term retained client relationships\n, • Create a practice that belongs entirely to them\n\n \n This is not a traditional role where we take a big % for introducing a client to you. \n \n It is an opportunity to explore whether your in-house legal experience could become your own high-value portfolio practice without any need for middlemen or secondment agencies. \n \n Next Step \n Apply confidentially.

SightGlass Vision, Inc. (SGV), a joint venture company between CooperVision (CVI) and EssilorLuxottica (EL), is the inventor and manufacturer of novel spectacle lenses that have proven to strongly reduce the progression of myopia in children. With this game changing technology in hand, we are poised to improve the lives of millions of children worldwide. \n \n This role will focus primarily on commercial contracts and providing support to the Senior Legal Counsel on a wide range of day-to-day legal and compliance matters, related to SightGlass Vision’s business operations internationally. You will work closely with colleagues across key business functions, including operations, medical affairs, and sales and marketing, helping the business move forward while managing legal risk in a practical and proportionate way. \n This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified legal professional with approximately 2 years post-qualification experience looking to build their in-house career within a small but growing and commercially focused organisation \n \n What you will do \n · Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including cross border agreements, such as distribution agreements, software licences, confidentiality agreements, clinical trial agreements, and services agreements. \n · Provide practical advice on contractual rights, obligations and dispute resolution. \n · Deliver commercially focused advice that supports business objectives while effectively managing legal risk. \n · Liaise with external legal advisers where required, under the direction of the Senior Legal Counsel. \n · Support the Senior Legal Counsel with a range of day‑to‑day legal and compliance matters, including intellectual property, employment, and data protection matters. \n · Contribute to continuous improvement of contract management processes, templates, systems and ways of working. \n · Review marketing materials and promotional claims to ensure legal and regulatory compliance. \n · Assist with the management of the company’s intellectual property portfolio and support the handling of IP infringement matters. \n · Monitor and report on relevant legal and regulatory developments that may impact the business. \n \n What you will bring \n Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: \n · Excellent drafting and negotiation skills and attention to detail. \n · Proven experience drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts. \n · Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders. \n · Comfortable working with a degree of autonomy while recognising when matters should be escalated for guidance or decision-making. \n · Clear and confident communicator, able to work effectively with cross‑functional, non‑legal stakeholders. \n · Ability to exercise sound discretion and judgement and demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality best practices. \n · Experience of or exposure to intellectual property matters, advertising law, and/or data protection matters would be advantageous. \n · Experience providing legal support to organisations that operate across multiple jurisdictions, including China and/ or the U.S., would be helpful, but is not essential. \n · Knowledge of the medical device industry would be beneficial, but is not essential. \n · Experience of cross-border transactions would be helpful, but is not essential. \n \n Education and Qualifications: \n · Qualified solicitor in England & Wales, or equivalent qualification from a recognised common-law jurisdiction, with the ability to practise in the UK. \n \n Experience: \n · Approximately 2 years' post-qualification experience either in-house or in a law firm, with a minimum of 1 year.

Currently located in Titchfield, Hampshire, Eaton's Aerospace business stands as a global leader in aerospace fuel systems.Our site is undergoing a significant and exciting transformation as we relocate to a newly constructed facility in Daedalus. This state-of-the-art site will serve as the Centre of Excellence for aerospace manufacturing across Europe, marking a new era of innovation and excellence.We pride ourselves as a premier supplier of fully integrated fuel systems for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. We boast extensive fuel and air system test facilities, facilitating comprehensive testing across a range of conditions with various fuel typesWhat youll do: • Direct, coordinate, and maintain all policies and procedures of the Human Resources Department in accordance with legal, Divisional and Corporate guidelines., • Administer employee relations policies and procedures that are responsive to the needs of employees and customers; as well as compliment the Eaton Values and Philosophy statements., • Provide coaching for all managers and supervisors in the areas of human resources including guidance on motivating, counseling, and developing direct and indirect reports, as well as employee performance improvements within a defined business area., • Counsel employees and supervisors regarding conflict resolution within a defined business area, • Lead plant and functional projects and/or initiatives, and inform and train employees of Corporate and Divisional human resources policies and procedures., • Oversee the recruitment, selection and promotion process of candidates to fill all vacancies within a defined business area., • Coordinates assigned training and development activities to insure availability of qualified and skilled employees., • Administers compensation, benefit, and performance management processes to maximize employee effectiveness., • Ensure evidence and processes are in place to meet either MESH, EBS or HR Operating Review requirements., • Monitor counseling, discipline and termination procedures to assure fair and equitable treatment for all employees., • Assist with performance appraisal system, merit increases and the OCA process., • Conduct, coordinate and monitor employee representative meetings and involvement programs., • Manage Key HR Metrics within an agreed target including, Absence Management, Overtime etc, • Represent the Companys programs, policies, and procedures in matters involving audits, sox compliance processes, national statistics reporting, pensions administrations, and payroll audits., • Evaluate compensation structure for internal equity, competitiveness and comparison with the local markets., • Maintain accurate reports on headcount and movements on a weekly and monthly basis. Producing reports for corporate and division as required., • Monitors all programs to ensure compliance with all local, state and government labour laws.Qualifications: Requires an Honours degree in relevant discipline e.g. Psychology or Business Administration, with a preference for a Masters degree in human resources or an MBA with a human resources concentration.Skills: Minimum Associate CIPD essential, MCIPD/FCIPD Preferred Demonstrable HR work experience at Operational level. Specialized knowledge of the interpretation of laws, regulations and standards, and enforcement agencies for equal employment opportunities, safety, wage and hour, unemployment, workers compensation and labor law. Managerial skills in budgeting, wage and salary administration and employee relations.What we offer:, • Competitive compensation and benefits package, • Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team, • Great company benefits, • We make your aspirations matter Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible, • We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University, • We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving peoples lives and the through power management technologies, • We make your wellbeing matter We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, its about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happenThe successful applicant will be in contact with US ITAR controlled technology, goods and information. As a condition of employment, employees with access to US ITAR controlled technology and goods may be required to undergo an additional screening process as part of the recruitment process.All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law. JBRP1_UKTJ

Aztec Group seeks an experienced Senior Employment Counsel in Southampton to offer legal advice on employment law matters across jurisdictions, requiring 6+ years of experience.