Solicitor / Associate (Family)

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced family solicitor to join our team of exceptional lawyers who are committed to providing quality family law advice to privately funded clients. This busy team offers a supportive environment for the right candidate to personally develop their own skills whilst contributing to the overall growth of a successful team.

What will I be doing

• Assisting the senior lawyers in the team whilst also managing your own caseload comprising the full range of family law matters including divorce, financial remedy work, private law children proceedings, cohabitation disputes and TOLATA claims. In addition advising in relation to wealth protection in the form of pre-nuptial and post nuptial agreements.
• Winning new client business through referrals and business development activities

You'll have

• 2 to 6 years' post qualification experience (4+ years to be an Associate) of the full range of family law work including running your own day to day case load; conducting advocacy where appropriate, instructing Counsel; drafting pleadings and meeting Court deadlines
• The ability to negotiate with other professionals and LiPs to secure agreed objectives
• The ability to proactively assist in developing new and existing client business via business development activities

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us, you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of two days in the office
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact [email protected] quoting vacancy reference MNC.0625.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please request a call back via the above email address.