Senior Associate Court of Protection

☞ Freeths LLP

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Oxford South East

Category: Legal / Contracts

Industry: Law Practice

Job type: Full-time

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The Freeths Group is one of the UK’s leading regional law practices. We offer services to both the commercial and private client across the entire legal spectrum. We operate from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Oxford and Sheffield.

The firm has a wide range of clients throughout the UK with many clients having strong international connections. We have over 150 partners and more than 800 members of staff in total.

Our client base reflects our nationwide strength and our nationwide service delivery. We are committed to continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success for our clients. We work in close partnership with clients, providing positive, practical solutions and clear, comprehensive advice.

Our aim is to attract and retain the most talented people, and part of this is providing a great place to work. So, to support fairness and equality and to encourage a healthy work-life balance, we continually monitor and improve our benefits.

We are proud that what we have achieved has been recognised over the past few years, being awarded Best Companies star status on a number of occasions and featured in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. We are also a silver standard accredited Investor in People Company, which means we are recognised for our efforts to improve work place engagement, leadership, personal growth, wellbeing, team working and our impact on society.

Our highly regarded Court of Protection Department is looking for a Lawyer to join their busy team in our Oxford office.

The caseload includes; assisting injured parties and elderly clients to manage their property & affairs where a deputy order is in place. The team also deals with complex and contentious court panel referrals, professional attorneyships and trusteeships for personal injury awards.

The work will include managing a varied caseload for clients who often have substantial awards of compensation, dealing with complex matters in the Court of Protection, assisting with catastrophic injury cases pre and post settlement, assisting with the purchase and adaption of properties, meeting with clients their families and multi-disciplinary teams, liaising with the Court and the Office of the Public Guardian, supervision of junior lawyers and support staff, billing and file management. Some of our cases can be very time consuming and sensitive.
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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