The Role

Department: Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes - National Professional Indemnity

Location: London

Role: Associate/ Senior Associate

The Team

Our National Professional Indemnity team is made up of a broad range of experts across UK offices. The NPI team has a very broad range of work with the professional, financial and management liability space, including but not limited to solicitors; accountants; IFAs, wealth-managers, pensions administrators and financial institutions; major insurance broking houses; surveyors; architects; D&O; and miscellaneous professions. The core of the NPI team's work is acting for professionals and their insurers in the defence of civil liability claims against them, as well as on regulatory/disciplinary matters and coverage. The NPI London team also undertakes a wide range of work but tends to focus on higher value and more complex disputes and advisory work, often involving complex coverage issues and often involving entities within the FCA-regulated space, although the range of work remains broad.

The Role

This role offers the successful candidate an opportunity to be part of a prestigious and dynamic, top-tier professional indemnity team, supporting a range of clients with highly technical and complex work. This role will include supervising and supporting more junior members of the team, a significant role in BD, profile and the team's growth in London, networking bother externally with clients and internally within the firm (both nationally and globally), and will foster a collaborative team approach.

Essential Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate would hold previous experience acting on a range of coverage disputes and advisory matters in the financial, professional and management lines space.
• Hold strong knowledge of the FCA-regulated space and FOS procedure with previous experience working on financial lines and coverage matters.
• Display intellectual versatility and a breath of experience across various coverage and liability matters.
• Display excellent technical legal skills including drafting and strategy management, as well as managing and prioritising a full and varied caseload and supporting in practice management.
• Have connections with clients in the insurance market and have started building a profile and network of contacts and potential clients. Ideally, will have successfully completed a secondment with an insurer/broker.
• We are ideally looking for a candidate with a minimum of 4 PQE. Please note that our PQE levels are a guide and all suitable candidates will be considered.
• Be an excellent team player, positively contributing to the team in respect of all Clyde & Co competencies (listed below).
• The Solicitors Act 1974 requires practicing solicitors to have a practicing certificate.
• Successful completion of a Training Contract (or equivalent) and relevant education (Legal Practice Course; Graduate Diploma in Law (if non Law Graduate).

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Role Competency Requirements

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

Technical Excellence

Technical legal expertise: the knowledge of the law and ability to apply it

Research: the ability to conduct research effectively and apply it commercially

Managing legal processes: the ability to ensure all legal processes are followed efficiently and effectively

People and Team

Guiding individual performance and development: develops the skills of self and others

Teamwork and collaboration: working cooperatively and effectively with others

Leadership: creating high performing teams

Client Relationships and Business Development

Building business relationships: establishing, maintaining and using relationships to create and develop business opportunities

Commercial thinking: understanding the commercial drivers

Cross-selling and business development

Finance and Practice Management

Finance management and understanding of the business

Project management: ensuring projects are delivered

Knowledge sharing

Personal Effectiveness

Communication

Clarity of thinking

Personal contribution

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This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.