Medical Negligence Lawyer in Watford

Seniority: Solicitor or Legal Executive - minimum 3 years experience

Office: Hertford/Hybrid

Are you looking to advance your legal career whilst enjoying a healthy work/life balance? Do you want to join a firm that is as interested in your career progression as you are? Are you searching for a fulfilling role where what you get out is considered just as important as what you put in? And where the only ceiling is your ambition?

Then Attwaters Solicitors could be the firm for you. Come and find out what makes us one of the Sunday Times Best Places to work in 2024, 2025 (Top 10 for medium organisations in the UK) and 2026.

With five offices spanning Hertfordshire, Essex and London, Attwaters Solicitors is a respected regional law firm with origins dating back well over a century. Our vision is to be the 'go to' private wealth legal practice in our region, through our commitment to excellent client care, integrity, teamwork, innovation, quality and respect.

In order to achieve our vision, we need people who are committed to excellence. We are experts at what we do and we're looking for people with the ambition, dedication and work ethic required to become leaders in their field.

But we also know that our people have a right to expect excellence from us. That's why we are dedicated to providing our staff with a nurturing environment, a structured career path that offers clear opportunities for progression, and all the support they need to thrive.

The role: We are a specialist Medical Negligence team, within a well-established friendly and supportive law firm. Our lawyers provide a high-quality service and handle complex and challenging cases.

The position is to cover maternity leave for a Junior Solicitor - 3 /4 days a week – between September 2026 and March 2027. The team is based in Hertford and hybrid working is available as is flexible working.

Experience is needed in running claimant Medical Negligence cases. Estimated 30 cases at various stages. Cases involving misdiagnosis, psychiatric illness and fatal cases. Working independently in managing the case load, with support from the senior lawyers.

The duties include:

• Compiling evidence
• Identifying the legal issues
• Schedules of loss
• Statements and particulars
• Instructing counsel and experts
• Communicating with the Defendants

A dedication to providing an excellent client service, good organisational skills and good knowledge of IT is required. Candidates must appreciate the emotional impact of a clinical negligence claim on our clients and be able to deal with clients sensitively and empathetically.

What we expect from you:

• You're dedicated to providing excellent client service in line with our Service Pledge.
• You're somebody who takes pride in their work and of whom we can be proud.
• You're interested in promoting the firm's good name both internally and externally.
• You're a team player who will always go the extra mile.
• You have a positive attitude and always look to lift spirits, not lower them.
• You show good judgement and maturity.
• You're risk-aware – you know what you don't know.
• You're a hard worker with a 'can-do' attitude.

What you can expect from us:

• A structured career path that provides all the information you need to develop and progress.
• A supportive and nurturing working environment with monthly one-to-ones, department meetings and a six-monthly appraisal scheme.
• Flexible and hybrid working.
• Firm-wide and fee-earner bonus schemes.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per year, rising by one day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
• Automatic enrolment to our contributory corporate pension scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Automatic enrolment to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps staff members experiencing personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and wellbeing.
• Enrolment to our Healthcare Cash Plan after the probationary period. Cover includes dependant children and may be extended to partners or spouses at the employee's expense.
• Access to Mintago, a comprehensive employee financial wellbeing platform.
• Each office has its own designated Social and Wellbeing champion, who is there to help promote good mental and physical health with a range of initiatives including social walks, book clubs, charitable activities and out-of-hours get-togethers and events.
• Annual staff events including summer and Christmas events, quarterly office lunches and our annual online Staff Quiz!
• And so much more!

Click 'Apply' to complete and submit your application – we can't wait to hear from you! Send in your CV to us, as we are always looking for great candidates.