Location: Portland Street, Manchester City Centre (Hybrid) | Permanent | Full-Time
Ready to transition from traditional legal practice into the fast-growing world of legal technology? This role could be the perfect next step.
Role
Our client is the global leader in Legal Practice Productivity Solutions and part of oneof the largest international Legal Tech companies. Their mission is simple: to help lawyers who help people.
Their market-leading software is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and legal professionals in small and medium-sized law firms worldwide. With more than 1,000 employees across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, a fast-growing global technology business where ambitious people thrive.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join them at a time of significant innovation and growth within their Personal Injury Law offering. As part of the team, you'll work closely with the Head of Personal Injury, the Personal Injury Content Specialist, and the Personal Injury Product Manager and Development Team to shape the product that support thousands of Personal Injury lawyers in their day-to-day practice.
This role goes beyond traditional fee-earning. You'll play a key part in translating your legal expertise into practical, technology-driven solutions. Your work will directly influence how Personal Injury law is practised, improving efficiency, consistency, and client outcomes.
They're looking for someone who combines strong technical legal ability with curiosity and enthusiasm for innovation. You'll collaborate with Product, Content, and Development teams, bringing a lawyer's perspective to the development of smarter, more effective legal tools.
If you're a Personal Injury lawyer looking to step into a role where you can have broader impact, help shape the future of legal tech, and be part of a forward-thinking, collaborative team, this is a unique opportunity to do just that.
What you'll do
- Support the Head of Personal Injury in developing and expanding the Personal Injury law practice offerings.
- Develop your industry profile through thought leadership and by representing the Personal Injury Vertical both internally & externally as and when required. Some travel will be expected.
- Regular meetings with User Firms. Act as an intermediary between user firms and the Product Manager and Content Specialist to refine our Personal Injury Product offering.
- Working with the Legal Content Specialist to Contribute to the design and refinement of legal content, workflows, and precedents within the platform.
- Review and support the Legal Content Specialist to build and refine the prompt library.
- Working with the Legal Content Specialist to Help draft and refine the precedents within the Personal Injury Law area, to ensure they best suit customer needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and innovation within Personal Injury law workflows.
- Stay up to date with developments in Personal Injury law and ensure content reflects current legislation and practice.
- Undertake / contribute to any other ad-hoc projects / tasks as and when required.
What you'll bring
- Qualified Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive with at least 3 -6 years PQE (or at least 5 years carrying a caseload) in Personal Injury law (ideally Associate or Senior Associate level).
- Strong technical expertise across a broad range of Personal Injury law matters (ideally in EL, OL/PL, RTA, with exposure to clinical negligence and / or Industrial disease type work ).
- An ability to work collaboratively with the Content Specialist to create targeted content and prompts and analyse the output.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality work.
- Excellent drafting and analytical skills.
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to work independently
- Strong interpersonal / communication skills and ability to collaborate with non-legal teams and Client firms / users.
- Enthusiasm for legal technology and improving how legal services are delivered.
Desirable:
- Experience and understanding of the OIC and MOJ Portals, as well as Fast track, Intermediate track, and multi track work (Both pre lit and post lit) to include an up to date understanding of budgeting in the Multi-track.
- Experience developing precedents, templates, and legal know-how resources.
- Exposure to legal tech, document automation, or case management systems.
- Interest or experience in innovation, process improvement, or legal operations.
- Significant experience of Personal Injury litigation, both PART 7 and PART 8, and detailed assessment proceedings.
- Previous involvement in training, mentoring, or knowledge sharing within a team.
On offer:
On top of a competitive salary, they also offer an excellent benefits package:
- 8% of your salary into your pension
- Private health insurance, including optical and dental
- £80 a month gym contribution
- Life insurance cover
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Professional Development Fund
- Enhanced parental leave
- PerkBox membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays)
- Work anniversary rewards
- Paid time off to give blood
- Volunteer day – 1 day per year for a charity of your choice
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