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Job Description
Crime & Regulatory - Solicitor
Application Deadline: 27 May 2026
Department: Legal
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Manchester
Reporting To: Lead Lawyers / Partners
Description
Assistant Lawyer / Solicitor – Regulatory & Health & Safety
📍 Manchester
💼 Salary: Competitive – discussed at application stage
💼 Salary: Competitive – discussed at application stage
About the Role:
We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Lawyer / Solicitor to join our specialist regulatory team in Manchester. Working closely with Partners David Rainey and Nick Gianferrari, you’ll play a key role in handling complex health & safety, regulatory, and inquest matters—often from the very outset of an incident through to resolution.
This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who enjoys both technical legal work and client interaction, and who is passionate about delivering high-quality legal solutions while building strong, trusted client relationships.
Why Join Us?
Why Join Us?
- Work alongside highly respected Partners on complex, high-profile cases
- Gain hands-on experience from day one
- Build expertise in a specialist and growing area of law
- Be part of a supportive, team-oriented culture
- Opportunity to develop client relationships through training and mentoring deliver
What You’ll Be Doing
In this varied and hands-on role, you will:
- Analyse prosecution evidence and assess its implications for clients
- Draft witness statements and review client evidence
- Collate, organise, and summarise case materials for senior lawyers
- Liaise with courts, coroners, regulators (HSE, CQC, Police) and external experts
- Prepare and serve defence case statements, sentencing and mitigation bundles
- Draft submissions and support case strategy development
- Attend interviews under caution, inquests, and trials alongside Counsel
- Conduct legal and regulatory research (including HSE guidelines)
- Review medical records, post-mortem reports, transcripts and CCTV evidence
- Coordinate meetings, site visits, and expert appointments
- Support clients sensitively in often challenging and high-pressure situations
What we're looking for
- ✅ A qualified Solicitor with at least 1 year’s experience in:
- Health & Safety / Regulatory law
- Criminal law
- Inquests (ideally within care home or similar settings)
- ✅ Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities
- ✅ Detail-focused and confident working with case management systems
- ✅ A strong communicator, able to build rapport with clients and stakeholders at all levels
- ✅ Calm, resilient and professional under pressure
- ✅ A collaborative team player with a proactive, flexible approach
- ✅ Sensitive and empathetic in dealing with clients facing difficult circumstances
- ✅ Confident in your written work, research, and IT skills
If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can develop your legal career in a specialist field, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or message us directly for a confidential chat.
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Job Benefits
- Davies Incentive Plan
- 25 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 Plan
- WeCare – 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 wellbeing
- Death in Service
- Critical Illness Cover
- PHI/Income Protection ( Private health insurance)
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
*after successfully completing probation