Supervisor (Solicitor / CILEX Lawyer) - EL/PL in London

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Application Deadline: 19 December 2025

Department: CSG – Casualty (EL/PL / Complex Injury / Disease / Fraud / Motor Injury / Vehicle Hire and Damage)

Location: Remote – England and Wales

Overview

Due to ongoing client wins and impressive growth, DAC Beachcroft's Casualty Injury team is on the lookout for a Supervisor to join the team. Our Casualty Injury team focuses on employers' liability and public liability claims, with claims valued up to £100k. Supervisors and senior lawyers handle matters beyond this value, and this is your chance to work within a dynamic and supportive team, handling a diverse range of EL/PL claims and making a real impact.

At DAC Beachcroft, you will benefit from working at one of the country's leading law firms, gaining hands‐on experience and expanding your professional network by building relationships with key clients in insurance and corporate business sectors. We are accepting applicants from all over the UK, offering flexibility to work remotely, in‐office or in a hybrid model, with particular interest in candidates based around Birmingham or South Wales.

What you will do:

• Direct supervision and management of a small team of paralegals responsible for volume‐litigated EL/PL cases.
• Technical supervision of claims.
• All interim and performance reviews.
• Absence management.
• Cascading and communicating information from senior management.
• Motivating and engaging the team, and overseeing their well‐being.
• Coaching the team and providing support to develop members through the career framework.
• Monitoring team financial performance and ensuring targets are hit.
• Ensuring files are run proactively and effectively to conclusion by the relevant lawyer, with deadlines met.
• Ensuring that lawyers carry out work effectively to meet client needs and the firm's commercial requirements.
• Addressing and managing any emerging risk or compliance issues raised by lawyers, in conjunction with the Team Partner.
• Effectively allocating work amongst the team to match skills and technical knowledge, ensuring work is carried out profitably.
• Raising and dealing with any complaint or escalated risk or compliance issue appropriately.
• Act as a point of contact for clients, demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.
• Support marketing and business development activity within the team (attending marketing events, client training, clinics and shadowing days).
• Handle a small caseload of mixed value EL/PL claims.
• Maintain awareness of the firm's strategies and plans.
• Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions and reading appropriate publications.
• Handle confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.

Who you are:

• A Solicitor / Chartered Legal Executive or Experienced Paralegal with supervision experience or keen to move into a supervising role; any experience is ideally in a personal injury environment but other supervision experience will be considered.
• Demonstrable experience of handling a caseload that includes EL/PL, personal injury or similar case types.
• A high level of personal compliance with client SLAs, protocols and KPIs.
• Good people‐management skills, including the ability to motivate, coach and mentor team members at all levels.
• IT skills – IT literate with a good working knowledge of Excel and Word.
• Prioritisation and organisation skills – strong ability to organise own time, identify priority tasks and know when to ask for help.
• Analytical skills – ability to critically look at factual evidence, identify what is not right/out of the ordinary.
• Commercial sense – ability to know the principle or law and also know when it is worth pursuing it.
• Interpersonal skills – ability to get on with a team, speak to a customer on the phone and meet a client.
• Resilience – ability to stand their ground in a telephone negotiation and to receive feedback.
• Aptitude to learn – ability to retain knowledge and put into play new skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.

Benefits:

• High levels of flexibility and a great work‐life balance.
• Well‐rounded remuneration package (including private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, among 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.

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, even if your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description – we encourage you to apply anyway.

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Recruitment Agency Information:

DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in‐house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL). Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

Job Details:

• Seniority level – Mid‐Senior level
• Employment type – Full‐time
• Job function – Other
• Industries – Law Practice