Employment Litigation Team Leader

About us

At DLG Legal Services, our mission is to make law easy and accessible to everyone. As part of the Direct Line Group, we provide legal services to over 50,000 DLG customers each year. Customers can access our legal Advice-line team and our growing list of services includes personal injury, employment, property, inheritance, and contract litigation. We also support our parent group, litigating on their behalf.

As the team takes on more responsibilities, it means we now have an exciting opportunity for as experienced Team Leader to join our Employment Litigation team,on full-time and permanent basis.

This position can be based from our Bristol, Leeds or Bromley office.

The role

Reporting to Head of Legal Practice, you will lead a team acting for clients on a range of litigated and pre- litigation employment law claims and managing these from initial assessment stage to resolution.

What you'll be doing

• Supervising and review all work output from the team to ensure that clients are given pro-active and accurate advice, and that expectations are managed together with service levels and targets being met.

• Supporting the professional development of the team, ensuring that learning needs and opportunities to broaden experience and knowledge are identified.

• Reviewing process and approach to ensure that this is efficient and meets client needs and business requirements.

• Allocating and managing workloads to meet DLG Legal Services service standards

• Ensuring that the team provides maximum value to the legal expenses insurance product funding claims, liaising with third party suppliers to ensure external supplier costs are as low as possible, and that opportunities for income generation are identified and pursued, where possible. 

• Acting as an expert on relevant areas of employment law, providing specialist technical and/or legal oversight to support the team and applying legal knowledge and experience to solve problems in novel situations while ensuring that all legal advice is accurate and correct.

• To identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to the role, in line with the relevant risk framework and in compliance with all DLG Legal Services policies and procedures and the SRA Code of Conduct at all times.

• Proactively identifying trends and using relevant data/information to understand emerging issues.

• Unlocking the full potential of the team through engagement, identifying and arranging learning and development, coaching and feedback, both individually and collectively.

• Role modelling, through positive behaviours, continuous improvement principles and effective problem solving.

• To support the strategic development of the department and firm by developing best practice and improving the client experience through continuous improvement initiatives.

• Develop self in order to maximise personal contribution to your role.

What we're looking for

• Recent experience of dealing with Employment disputes of all complexities.

• Experience of supervising others and leading Employment claims is helpful.

• The ability to evidence delivering a very high standard of work, an excellent level of service to customers, and dedicated management of deadlines also required.

• You will either need to be a Solicitor or Legal Executive or have strong legal background at an appropriate level.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 Hours - Monday - Friday

Location: Bristol (BS1 6JX), Leeds (LS1 4AZ), Bromley (BR1 1DP)

Home Working: 3 days from home / 2 days from the office

What we'll give you

We have a strong focus on developing you and your skillset and to give you the tools to do so. In addition to this we also offer a great benefits package;

• 9% Private pension contribution

• Annual bonus - up to 10%

• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover

• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.

• Generous holidays

• Buy as you earn share scheme

• Employee discounts and cashback

• Company car scheme

• Plus many more

Being yourself

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

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