Insurance (PI/coverage) Associates
- Employer
- CMS
- Location
- Bristol, England / England, London
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- 28 Jan 2022
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors – Private Practice
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Practice Area
- Insurance & Reinsurance, Professional Negligence / Indemnity
- Experience Level
- 0-2yrs PQE, 2-5yrs PQE, 5+ yrs PQE
- Role Classification
- Lawyer
Job Details
Excellent opportunity to join our high performing and top ranked insurance team. We are growing and have multiple opportunities across our London and Bristol offices.About CMS
CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 79 offices in 45 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.
CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.
About the Role
The Insurance & Reinsurance Group are busy and growing. We are looking to hire across our London and Bristol offices at the 2 PQE+ level. The team handle a wide range of complex, high value matters, with notable international presence.
Key areas of work include wide ranging professional indemnity disputes (particularly defending claims against finance professionals, solicitors, insurance brokers and construction professionals), financial lines, complex policy coverage matters and reinsurance.
There is the opportunity to specialise in a particular area above or maintain breadth, as well as gain exposure to wider classes of claims such as W&I, marine, cyber, and tech.
You will have the opportunity to work with an enviable client base, including many of the leading insurers and major brokers. The team are known for being highly commercial in their advice and offer the prospect of working closely with key clients, alongside being encouraged to develop your own contacts/network in the market.
About YouThe right individual will have 2 PQE+ gained at a City, insurance, major regional or leading international firm with strong experience handling clients in major insurance undertakings.
You will have excellent drafting skills and the ability to translate legal theory into practical, commercial advice.
Due to the role being client facing you will need to have sound judgement and good interpersonal and project management skills.
Equal Opportunities
At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.
For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.
Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.
Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.#LI-NH1
Company
CMS is a future facing international law firm. With 74 offices in 44 countries and 5000+ lawyers worldwide, and home to business services colleagues across everything from Information Technology, Human Resources and Innovation to Finance, Diversity & Inclusion and Communications. The firm’s core purpose is to build rewarding futures for its clients, people, and communities.
We’re a global law firm. We focus on the big and the small. We look to the future and embrace agility and challenge. We are experts in our sectors and have the rankings to back that up. But it’s not all sectors and rankings. We focus on relationships. We’re a community. We look out for each other, encourage everyone to be themselves, and the best version of that. We’re friendly and go-getting. We act with purpose and find passion in what we do. We seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We don’t want everyone to be the same. We know the best route forward is with the most diverse group of colleagues as possible. We’re here to build a better future.
In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, every team at CMS is empowered to operate and innovate in ways that best meet clients’ needs. We encourage ideas from every corner of our business. We are also committed to addressing our own impact on the environment and approach to sustainability, as well as advising clients with their related legal needs.
We strive to spend more time looking at our clients’ world than inwards at ours. That’s what makes our approach different. Being able to see things from our clients’ perspective means our people are approachable and accessible. And this means we have a genuinely supportive, open culture you won’t find everywhere.
Our culture
It’s all about relationships. Our relationship with you, your relationship with us, and the relationships we have with clients and the communities around us. We want you to thrive and show your personality. Foster community, work together, listen, be open, and help each other succeed. Act with purpose and find passion. Strive for progress and embrace challenges. Seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We value trust over rules.
At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive, and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.
Whatever your specialism, and whether you’re a lawyer or a business services professional, a career at CMS gives you huge scope to carve out a brilliant career as you help us, and our clients, to face the future with confidence.
- Website
- https://cms.law/
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 20 7367 3000
- Location
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Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
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