Legal Trainer

Express Solicitors are currently ranked 80 out of more than 10,000 law firms in the UK and ranked in the top ten for the Best Law Firm to work for in the UK by Best Companies. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 6,000 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.

We specialise in all areas of personal injury including public liability, occupier’s liability, road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, industrial disease, serious injuries, and clinical negligence. We pride ourselves in the work we do helping injured people. 

Training plays a huge part in the development of our solicitors; we believe every lawyer has the potential to be a partner. We therefore provide in-depth training programmes to all staff. From induction training as soon as they join us, our graduate scheme (specifically designed for new lawyers), our regular training for existing staff and various other development programmes.

A word from James Maxey, Managing Partner:

“Express Solicitors have always believed in spending a much higher proportion of turnover on its training budget than comparator companies. We recognise that all we have to sell is the knowledge and skills of our people and serious effort has been put into the development of the Graduate Scheme not just by our excellent training personnel but by all of the senior management team. We believe this Scheme provides a really effective bridge from the essential academic stage of learning the law to the delivery of that in a professional services environment.”

Role

Reporting to the Head of Professional Support, you will help to grow and develop our fee earning staff through a range of different methods. You will be delivering group training as well as coaching on a 1:1 basis. We see this role as key to the development and mentoring of our junior fee earners.

Responsibilities

• Take a prominent role in training, coaching and mentoring solicitors and other fee earning staff.
• Deliver a programme of continuous training to existing staff in line with identified training requirements and newly introduced legal changes.
• Deliver training and guidance on the use of Proclaim to aid case management and strategic performance of junior fee earners.
• Help develop, manage and deliver our graduate scheme for law graduates.
• Identify training needs through working with Senior Management, supervisors, and HR.
• Attend training meetings with HR and Head of Professional Support as requested, and report on current projects and issues.
• Participate in department meetings where required to understand the business and user needs to be delivered from both systems improvements and training.
• Design, develop and update training materials to reinforce and embed delivered training.
• Design and create training content for our Learning Management System (LMS) and blended learning programs.
• Monitor the feedback given on courses and make relevant changes.
• Maintain the training records as to attendance.
• Report to Management where further training requirements may be identified for individual or teams of staff.
• Help embed the agreed standard of the company e.g. case progression, standards and tactics of litigation, weekly supervision and enforcing our Service Promises.
• Assist with marketing externally by providing commentary on legal updates and drafting articles.
• Keep abreast of significant legal changes and familiarise yourself with them to ensure you can suggest policy changes to maintain the firm’s profitability.

Person Specification 

• A qualified solicitor or qualified by experience with demonstrable experience within person injury. You must have case handling experience from cradle to grave.

• Ideally experience of composing and delivering training, either one to one, through workshops or presentations.
• High IT Literacy Skills
• Able to present information to others in a clear and concise manner.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Organisational skills and the ability to plan ahead and manage time.
• The ability to encourage and motivate people.
• Ability to tailor training packages to the level of the trainee group or individual as necessary.
• An aptitude for learning new systems and processes quickly

Salary, Hours & Benefits

• Our standard working hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday. There is a degree of flexibility which can be discussed at interview. 
• 3/2 alternative working from home pattern staff after probation.
• 23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days.
• 3 holiday buy backs per year after 1 year of service
• Extra day’s holiday for your birthday after 2 years’ service.
• Private medical insurance
• Attending fee earner meetings and training sessions (every other month)
• Death in Service
• Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget.
• Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion.
• Netball / Football team, 10km Manchester team and more.
• Enhanced Maternity Leave payment if you have over 1 year tenure
• Other benefits including Employee Assistance Programme, free fruit & annual flu jab.

Recruitment Process

Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams and will include scenario-based questioning.

At Express Solicitors we rate skill and ability above all else and our recruitment policy encourages applications from all.

Our employees are our most important asset, we rate skill and ability above all else and our recruitment policy encourages applications from all. 

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