Job Description
Paralegal - Casualty Injury
Application Deadline: 22 May 2026
Department: CSG - Casualty (EL/PL / Complex Injury / Disease / Fraud / Motor Injury / Vehicle Hire and Damage)
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Newport
Reporting To: Will Swift
Description
Our Casualty Injury team focuses on employers' liability and public liability claims, with claims valued up to £100k. This is your chance to work within a dynamic and supportive team (with full and supportive training provided), handling a diverse range of EL/PL claims and making a real impact.
The role is available from our Newport or Birmingham offices.
What you will do?
- Ensuring claims are progressed proactively and efficiently to conclusion
- Embracing the training provided and the support given to all new starters to assist in your legal development, the litigation process and with handling litigated claims more generally.
- With support where needed, devising clear case strategies, balancing the commercial interests of both the firm and the client.
- Ensuring work meets client needs, firm’s commercial requirements, and quality standards
- Working collaboratively with other teams ensuring that you build your internal network of contacts.
- Applying current technical expertise and case law to each claim whilst also maintaining and developing technical knowledge through training sessions and reading relevant publications.
- Engaging with clients and support business development plans to maximize opportunities to meet and build rapport, always acting as an ambassador of the firm.
Who you are
- Paralegals with 0-1+ years’ experience in a similar role, ideally with EL/PL experience. However, we are happy to consider candidates with alternative backgrounds such as Claimant, motor, disease, pre-litigated Defendant work, clinical negligence, profin etc.
- Good organisation skills, able to work to deadlines, prioritise own workload, meet conflicting demands and has a strong work ethic.
- Able to produce work to a high standard, with excellent attention to detail and concern for quality of service.
- Somone who is enthusiastic about joining a well-established and highly thought of Casualty Injury (EL/PL) team and who can see themselves building a future with DAC Beachcroft.
- Eager to collaborate and build lasting relationships with colleagues, becoming an integral part of a growing team.
What's in it for you?
- High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://jobs.dacbeachcroft.com/whats-in-it-for-you/
- A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
- Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
- In person and remote social events
- Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities