Centurion: Legal Advisor posted by ARCS

About the Role

ARCS is seeking a highly experienced and skilled Centurion: Legal Advisor to join our team. As a leading organization, we require an attorney with a strong background in insurance litigation and magistrates’ and high court procedures to ensure our clients receive expert legal advice. If you are a motivated and detail-oriented individual with excellent communication skills, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Instruct relevant experts where necessary.
• Independently research relevant case law, legislation, and other legal authorities.
• Consult with all relevant parties, including witnesses and experts as necessary.
• Liaise with plaintiffs’ attorneys in respect of the conduct of the claims.
• Assist and have input into the drafting of various pleadings and notices.
• Draft comprehensive and well-substantiated and motivated opinions based on the assessment of the claims, recommending to management repudiation, defence or settlement the claim.
• Negotiate a proper settlement of claims and party and party bills of costs.
• Tactically plan and manage various claims within your portfolio and ensure that they are assessed in accordance with the relevant departmental minimum operation standards.
• Regularly keep various stakeholders apprised of and updated with developments in the claim.
• Take an active role in risk management, including research, collation of data, reports, and contribute articles for the Risk Alert Bulletin, and monitor the environment to identify claims trends.
• Promote and ensure quality and professional client service.
• Arrange timeous payments of settlement payments, party and party costs, and invoices.

Requirements

• Must have an LLB or BProc
• Be an admitted attorney with a minimum of 3 and 5 years post-admission experience gained as an attorney in an attorney’s private practice
• Have exposure to an insurance litigation environment
• Have a good and comprehensive knowledge of the magistrates’ and high court procedures.
• Be computer literate and have working knowledge of MS Office programmes (including Word, Outlook, and Excel).
• Have good analytical skills, attention to detail, and be able to produce professional reports.
• Be able to work as part of a team
• Be able to work under pressure
• Have good negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Take responsibility for decisions made and must be able to work independently
• Have an in-depth knowledge of how a legal practice operates and functions, including the legal and ethical duties expected of legal practitioners.

Qualifications

No formal education is required as no specific degree or diploma mentioned in the original description.