Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
To provide legal and administrative support to Arcadis dispute resolution lawyers and other members of the Arcadis UK & Ireland in-house Legal, Compliance, and Privacy (‘LCP’) team. This role will be based in the United Kingdom preferably in Bristol Office.
Reports to Senior Litigation Business Partner.
Role accountabilities:
Claims handling and dispute management support including:
- Locating and securing documents;
- Document management generally includes working with external document management platform providers;
- Identifying and liaising with potential witnesses and discussions with witnesses;
- Notifications to insurers;
- Preparing bundles of documents as required for internal review and instruction of external solicitors;
- Liaising with external solicitors, experts, and other consultants as required;
- Maintaining claims records;
- Reporting to management, brokers and insurers;
- General preparation for all forms of dispute resolution including mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.
General support for the LCP team and the wider business including:
- Providing legal support for bid and project teams;
- Analysing and reporting on claims statistics;
- Preparation and updating of internal LCP guidance notes;
- Preparation of internal LCP training materials;
- Legal research including general advice on draft and new legislation.
Qualifications & Experience:
- First degree or equivalent, preferably in law
- Postgraduate legal qualification (e.g. Legal Practice Course) is preferred but not essential.
- Previous experience in a litigation support or other paralegal role
- The role may be suitable for candidates looking to gain Qualifying Work Experience in order to qualify as solicitors
Main Working Contacts:
- UK&I LCP team members;
- Global Insurance Director
- UK Company Secretary
- UK&I project and bid teams
- Global LCP team
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
