Litigation Associate

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Established in 2020, KP Law (formally Keller Postman) is a specialist litigation boutique, focussing on collective redress.

The firm has around 100 employees across offices in London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester, representing over 200,000 individual clients across a range of cases in areas such as product liability, worker rights, data breach and privacy and financial services.

The firm’s ethos is to combine the best legal talent with a strong operational and technological platform to enable its clients to pursue cases that could not otherwise be brought against large corporates as a result of their wrongdoing. Uniquely, KP Law is owned and fully financed by a recognised UK litigation funder (Asertis). All of its cases are for claimants and carried out under contingent fee agreements at no cost or risk to its clients.

KP Law was ranked Tier 1 for Group Litigation: Claimant in The Legal 500 UK Guide 2024. This follows our success in 2023 where we received a commendation for ‘Litigation Boutique Firm of the Year’ at The Lawyer Awards 2023 and won the Race Equality Initiative of the Year at the 2023 Women & Diversity in Law Awards.

The Role

Role Responsibilities

The role will include, but is not limited to:

• Working closely with partners and senior associates to deliver exceptionally high standards of work.
• Leading teams of paralegals and other business professionals (for example, data analysts) to progress clients’ claims in a bulk setting.
• Prepare correspondence – both to opposing counsel and for clients – and review documents for submitting to the Court / Tribunal.
• Resolving data issues and queries during the collation of clients’ information.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to progress and manage cases. Managing legal documentation and demonstrating effective case management.
• Conducting research, drafting, and reviewing of documentation relating to relevant cases including responding to complex client queries and issues.

Person Specification

• Demonstrable litigation experience, ideally within the group litigation context, but not essential.
• Commercially astute and aware of key legal and business issues.
• Outstanding analytical, innovation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective, trusted relationships at all levels within the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Client-centric approach.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced dynamic environment with consistently high levels of performance.
• Experience of supervising trainees and / or paralegals.
• Self-starter, willing to take on responsibility and manage multiple case workstreams day to day.
• Unfazed by new issues / problems – willing to think logically and provide solutions, even when dealing with issues which are novel.

Our approach to our people is underpinned by our commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and well-being. Our ambition is to build a richly diverse workforce made up of the best talent in our industry. With a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.

This means that everyone who either applies to or works for KP Law is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.

Our Values

• We do what we say we will do (both individually and collectively).
• We are transparent and honest.
• We always put our clients first.
• We treat everyone with respect.
• We are professional.
• We listen to feedback and strive for continual improvement.

We strive to offer a rounded benefits package, that employees value, no matter what stage of their career they are in. Current benefits include:

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Company contributory pension scheme (3% employee and 5% employer)