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Your New Firm

Our client is a highly respected regional law firm recognised for its quality of work in catastrophic injury, personal injury and medical negligence. The firm has a strong reputation for delivering exceptional client care and achieving life‑changing outcomes for individuals affected by serious and complex injuries.The Personal Injury offering sits within a wider Injury and Medical Negligence group, known for handling high‑value, technically challenging cases and providing holistic support throughout the entire rehabilitation journey. The team is collaborative, supportive, and genuinely committed to long‑term career development for its lawyers.

Your New Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialist Serious Injury team as an Associate. You will work on a caseload centred on complex, high‑value personal injury matters, with a particular focus on traumatic brain injury (adult and child), complex orthopaedic injuries, and fatal incident / inquest work.In this role, you will manage and progress serious injury claims involving long‑term rehabilitation needs and complex liability and quantum issues. You will work collaboratively within small sub‑teams, sharing responsibility for moving high‑value files forward and ensuring continuity across multi‑year cases. You will provide clear, supportive and empathetic guidance to vulnerable clients and their families, often during extremely challenging circumstances. Alongside this, you will contribute to case strategy, assist with evidence gathering, liaise with experts and engage in negotiations. You will also play a key part in maintaining strong client relationships and ensuring a consistently high‑quality service across all matters.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Ideally, you will be a solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive with a minimum of two years' experience in personal injury, including exposure to serious or catastrophic injury work. You will bring proven experience in traumatic brain injury claims, along with strong technical ability, excellent attention to detail and confidence handling complex litigation tasks. You will be naturally empathetic, calm under pressure and effective when supporting vulnerable clients and their families. A collaborative working style is key, as is the ability to contribute positively within a team-based approach to case management. You will also be proactive, well organised and comfortable taking ownership of tasks while working within a wider group. Candidates with broader personal injury experience who can demonstrate the required skills and a clear motivation to specialise in serious injury will also be considered.

What You'll Get in Return

You will join a highly regarded and technically strong team that offers exposure to high‑value, complex catastrophic injury work, together with a supportive and genuinely collaborative working culture where teamwork is central to how cases are progressed. The firm is committed to long‑term career development and provides clear opportunities for progression, alongside hybrid working arrangements and a healthy work-life balance, with a typical expectation of three days per week in the office. The team is open to considering candidates from the surrounding regions as well as those interested in relocating to the South Coast.

What You Need to Do Now

If you are interested in this role or would like a confidential discussion about your experience, please get in touch.If this opportunity isn't quite right for you but you are exploring new roles within serious injury or personal injury, we would still be very pleased to hear from you.We would expect a lawyer with the stated PQE to have gained the relevant experience, but we welcome applications from those with more or less PQE who can demonstrate the required skills and capabilities.

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