Looking for a role where your talent for detail, investigation, and client support genuinely changes lives? Join Thompsons Solicitors in Stoke as a Pre‑Litigation Assistant and help shape cases that stand up for working people across the UK.
In this fast‑paced, rewarding role, you’ll be at the heart of case preparation. Your responsibilities will include:
- Investigating and gathering key evidence to assess whether a claim should proceed to litigation.
- Preparing files for issue — reviewing merits, arranging medical evidence, instructing experts, and ensuring everything is in place for handover.
- Managing a high‑volume, varied caseload with confidence, accuracy, and strong organisational skills.
- Taking detailed client, witness and expert instructions with professionalism and empathy.
- Making sound, informed decisions under supervision using strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Working efficiently within KPIs and keeping accurate time records.
- Using our case management system to stay fully self‑sufficient and productive.
You’ll excel in this role if you have:
- 1–2 years’ experience in a legal environment
- Strong communication and client‑care skills (phone and face‑to‑face)
- Knowledge of PI law, Pre‑Action Protocols, CPR and funding — or the drive to learn quickly
- The ability to prioritise, manage deadlines and stay organised in a high‑volume setting
- Excellent drafting, numeracy and written communication skills
We believe in investing in our people. Expect strong support, real progression, and industry‑leading benefits, including:
- Contributory pension scheme
- 23 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- 5 additional days off over Christmas
- Permanent health insurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sports & social club
- Annual travel & parking loans
- Financial support for professional development
About Thompsons
For over 100 years, Thompsons Solicitors has stood up for injured and mistreated people — never employers or insurers. We’ve driven landmark cases, shaped legal rights, and championed fairness for working people. With 800 staff across 18 UK offices, our commitment remains the same: justice without compromise.
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Ready to build a meaningful legal career in a firm that fights for what’s right?
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
- the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
- the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
- the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
- the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
- hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.
Visit www.thompsons.law or call 0800 0 224 224
Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.
