Kennedys is growing its Motor practice and is seeking skilled Credit Hire professionals to join our national Credit Hire team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a busy and progressive environment, handling defendant matters across Small Claims, Fast Track, Multi-Track, OIC, and MOJ cases.
Team
Kennedys' Liability team advises on a broad range of motor-related disputes, including pre- and post-litigation cases. Our work spans motor liability, employer's liability, and public liability, providing fee earners with exposure to varied and engaging caseloads.
As part of a collaborative and fast-paced team, professionals gain valuable hands-on experience in case strategy, litigation, and negotiation, helping insurers and self-insured businesses successfully resolve third-party credit hire claims. The team has notably played a pivotal role in several high-profile cases that reinforced our expertise in the credit hire and wider Motor sector and highlights our results-driven approach. We are committed to supporting professional development while consistently delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients.
Clients
- Leading UK insurers
- Self-insured businesses
Required experience
- 0-5 years' with the relevant experience*
- Litigation experience of motor defence and credit hire work
- Strong client-facing skills and experience in case management
- Credit hire experience is desirable
- Experience of negotiation.
Formal legal qualifications would be an advantage, but they are not essential. We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate strong practical litigation experience and the confidence to manage complex cases independently.
About Kennedys
Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.
Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.
We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.
What do we have to offer?
We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.
Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.
The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.
We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.
Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.
