Clyde & Co
Healthcare - Associate

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Job Description
Associates - Healthcare - Manchester/Birmingham/Bristol/Southampton or London
We are looking to attract a number of Associates at all levels to join our Tier 1 Healthcare team in our Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton or London offices. Our Healthcare practice have just been awarded - Investors in People Gold, 2023. This is a team committed to engagement, high quality work, and outstanding performance.
The Team
Driven by the unprecedented demands of an ageing global population and growing levels of lifestyle-related chronic diseases around the world, the global healthcare sector is undergoing a period of rapid change.
Our multidisciplinary global healthcare group draws upon expertise across the firm and comprises of lawyers who specialise in:
- Litigation
- Coroner's inquests
- The Court of Protection
- Capacity and consent
- Projects and construction
- Real estate
- Corporate
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Commercial
- IT
- Regulatory
- Employment
Our clients include:
- Public and private hospitals
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Insurance companies
- Healthcare suppliers and distributors
- Healthcare companies
- Private equity firms specialising in healthcare investments
- Health ministries and authorities
Our extensive office network across the UK & Europe, US, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East enables us to deliver a seamless integrated service to our healthcare clients around the globe.
This role is working with a partner who advises on a wide range of healthcare matters, including:
- Providing representation at inquests
- Representing clinicians before their regulatory body
- Medical device/product liability work
- General advisory work
Key Responsibilities
- Applying strong technical skills and legal principles to a range of specific complex problems
- Drafting and interpreting complex legal documents using specialist knowledge
- Advising and counselling on claims involving breaches of professional standards
- Conducting legal discussions and liaising with clients and witnesses
- Presenting at seminars, writing for publications and hosting client events
- Understanding our client's business and identifying where the firm can help
- Preparing court documents
- Identifying opportunities and developing new or follow-on business
- Demonstrating an understanding of the global firm, its offices and practices and actively seeking out cross selling opportunities
- Understanding and dealing with client expectations, objectives, negotiating position and key concerns
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Candidates will ideally have a minimum of 1 PQE. Please note that our PQE levels are a guide and all suitable candidates will be considered
- Display excellent legal skills and initiative, as well as managing and prioritising a full and varied caseload
- The ideal candidate will have significant relevant experience in defended clinical negligence practice including medical malpractice and experience dealing with multimillion pound matters
- The ideal candidate will have experience working within the healthcare sector
- The solicitors act 1974 requires practicing solicitors to have a practicing certificate
- Successful completion of a Training Contract (or equivalent) and relevant education (Legal Practice Course; Graduate Diploma in Law (if non Law graduate); 2:1 honours degree or equivalent; A Levels)
We offer a nurturing and collaborative environment and agile hybrid ways of working in our offices. Our company benefits include 25 days holiday allowance plus the option to purchase more, pension scheme, health cash plan, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a number of discounts to use for gym membership, car leasing, mobile phones contracts and insurance products and a cycle to work scheme.
Please contact Danielle.Darke@clydeco.com if you want to have a confidential chat about the roles.
About Clyde & Co
Clyde & Co is committed to promoting equality and diversity in all aspects of employment.


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When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.
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Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.
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