Irwin Mitchell
Solicitor - Medical Negligence
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Your Role and What You'll Be Doing
You’ll be joining Sara Burns who is one of our Partners in the Medical Negligence team in Birmingham. Her team handles a broad and varied caseload, including birth injury, brain injury, stroke, fatal claims and other complex clinical negligence matters. The work is often high-value, sensitive and procedurally demanding, so we are looking for someone who is confident working across a wide range of claims and who brings strong litigation experience.
As a key member of the team, you’ll play a vital role in supporting clients through some of the most challenging times in their lives. You’ll be involved in:
- Managing a varied caseload of complex claimant medical negligence cases, including litigated matters.
- Delivering excellent client care with empathy and compassion.
- Working collaboratively within nationally recognised specialist teams.
- Building strong relationships with clients, experts, counsel and healthcare professionals.
- Supporting vulnerable clients and their families through sensitive and often life changing situations.
- Driving claims forward strategically through investigation, pleadings, expert evidence, disclosure, settlement negotiations and, where required, trial preparation.
- Contributing to team development, business development activities and the firm's reputation as a leading claimant practice.
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About You
We’re looking for someone who combines technical excellence with genuine empathy:
- 3–5 years PQE, ideally with a background in claimant work, and experience handling complex, high-value or procedurally demanding claims.
- Strong transferable litigation skills, including working to court timetables, preparing cases for key procedural stages, managing expert evidence and progressing matters efficiently and commercially.
- The ability to take instructions from clients, analyse complex evidence and give clear, practical legal advice.
- Demonstrable experience assisting seniors on high-value, complex and strategically important cases.
- The ability to operate independently and work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
You’ll be joining a forward-thinking and supportive team that values compassion, excellence and impact. If you have the litigation experience, technical ability and client-focused approach needed to work across a diverse and demanding caseload, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
- 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
- Generous and flexible pension schemes.
- Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
- Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
- We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
- We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
- Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
- Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.
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Additional Information
As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.
We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.
The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
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