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Litigation Associate/Legal Professional Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at AGC Recruitment Pty Ltd
Position: Litigation Associate / Legal Professional
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.
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Attorney, Advocage, Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Legal Research, Legal Documents, Civil litigation, Drafting , Consultations, Telephonic Consultations
Title: Litigation Associate/Legal Professional
Company: AGC Recruitment Pty Ltd
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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