Litigation Associate / Legal Professional – Cape Town

A well-established Legal Services Provider in Cape Town is seeking a driven Litigation Associate/ Legal Professional to join their team.

This role is ideal for a motivated legal professional with a strong background in Civil Litigation, who is passionate about delivering practical legal advice, dispute resolution, and client-focused service.

The successful candidate will provide legal support to policy holders through consultations, mediation, drafting, and advisory services, ensuring matters are resolved efficiently and amicably.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for taking down comprehensive instructions from policy holders during personal consultations or telephonically, or by receipt of written instructions by letter, email; and supply immediate basic legal and product advice if required
• Explaining the company’s process in detail to members as well as the exclusion procedure.
• Attend to drafting of warning letters, referrals where applicable, letters to policy holders and third parties as well as settlement agreements.
• Supply regular progress reports and/or feedback to policy holders on their pending files. Feedback must be provided to policy holders at least twice a month or as often as the legal matter dictates.
• Comprehensive notes to be made on all pending files when taking instructions and or providing advice and/or follow ups etc.
• Verbal and written interpretation of the law to the legal matters and reflection thereof on the files in a comprehensive manner.
• Applying the legal principles to the facts of the matter and providing policy holders with legal opinions, whether written or telephonically.
• Research legal relevant topics to remain aware of all current laws in a particular legal scenario.
• Follow instructions left by management in file notes or via e-mail or verbal instruction
• Ensuring compliance with the Legal and Claims policies as well as policy considerations
• Maintaining effective relationships with administration and support staff.
• Drafting of letters
• Mediation for the purposes of solving or assisting the policy holders’ legal issue at hand
• Assessing merits of legal cases for the purposes of legal advice to policy holders and/or for ascertaining whether the policy holder qualifies for litigation cover in terms of the company’s products/policies
• Ensuring accuracy and compliance when escalating matters to our claims department with minimal returns
• Exceptional performance delivery
• Verification of policy payment history monthly.
• Follow rejection/exclusion procedures
• Proper administration of his/her file load of pending case files; and diarising system.
• Attending to all tasks in timeframe provided

Minimum Requirements:

• LLB degree, admitted as an attorney or advocate is advantageous,
• Ability to speak, write and understand two official African Languages,
• 2+ years’ post articles Civil experience in a Legal Environment.
• Must possess qualities such as honesty and integrity,
• Must be fully computer-literate and have good communication and administration skills,

• Excellent team player,
• Able to work without supervision;
• Must be able to take initiative and innovative in their approach to their work,
• Able to collaborate with other team members and departments,
• Strong drafting skills;
• High level legal knowledge,
• Positive mindset and motivated individual,
• Also possess the attributes as set out under the heading skills, ability and knowledge.

Remuneration

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