Associate Family Solicitor - Full or Part-time. Hybrid.

Hedges Law; West Oxfordshire; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A modern law firm in West Oxfordshire is seeking an Associate Family Solicitor to join their top-ranked Family Law team. The role involves handling a broad caseload focusing on modern family issues. Candidates should have at least 4 years of experience in family law, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to work with high net worth clients. This position offers a competitive salary, employee ownership, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

25/28 days annual leave

Life Insurance

Flu Vouchers

Company pension

Profit sharing

Coaching and Personal Development

Qualifications

• Proven experience handling cohabitation, parenting, and mediation cases.
• Strong IT skills and familiarity with legal case management systems.

Responsibilities

• Handle a broad caseload of family law cases.
• Support senior lawyers and contribute to business development.

Skills

Experience in modern family law issues

Excellent communication

Outstanding client assistance and advisory skills

Education

4 years post-qualification experience in family law

Job description

Overview

Join Hedges at an exciting time as we move toward full employee ownership and ambitious firm-wide growth.

Our top-ranked Family Law team is expanding, and we’re looking for a passionate Associate to handle a broad caseload, with a focus on modern family issues such as cohabitation claims, parentage, mediation, and private children matters.

You'll support senior lawyers on complex cases and contribute to business development. Whether you're stepping into an Associate role or already there and ready to grow, this is a great opportunity to make your mark.

From day one you will be:

• Empowered (everyone really does have a voice)
• Valued
• Challenged by high-quality work for HNW clients
• Set-off at the right pace
• Nurtured and developed
• Accelerated (faster career progression)
• Paid what you are worth, faster than you can in your current gig

Ready to LOVE work again? Ready to be supported by a team? Ready to 'own' part of the practice from Day 1 (with NO buy-in)? Ready to grow without barriers? Ready to work with an incredible eclectic mix of HNW / UHNW clients? Ready to join a hand-built invested team who win and succeed together? Ready to become a Hedgeholder?

If you are looking for a better deal, better work-life balance and no limits we’d love to talk.

Put the kettle on, grab a drink and let’s have a 15 min chat to see where we can both take this….

About Hedges Law

We may have a 235-year heritage, but that doesn't mean we're a stale, dull and oppressive law firm like so many others. No chance.

Whilst we love and embrace our heritage and history, we’ve evolved this firm with the times to become a truly 21st century business: making it our job to innovate, excite, and ensure that when future generations look at our pictures lining the wall, not only can they see what a terrific, friendly bunch we are, BUT that we were also the 'dream team', the mavericks, the leaders in the field, the game-changers: those who kept moving Hedges forward and relevant, making it one of the most beautifully different law firms of its time.

Word on the street: "City Firm Quality exported to Oxfordshire and The Cotswolds".

We were only the fifth employee-owned law firm in the UK and you will have a share in the business' success from day one. There's no 'buy-in' and no liability with our innovative trust shareholder structure. It's really special and means the world to our employees.

The Role at a Glance

Associate Family Solicitor
Hybrid – Min of 2 days per week in our Oxford/Chipping Norton office
£55,000 - £70,000 DOE
Plus Company Profit Share & Extensive Benefits

Reporting to: Family Team Leader
35 hours per week – We would also consider Part time, flexible 21 hours per week minimum.

Your Skills

• Experience in modern family law issues including financial claims of cohabiting couples and their children, private children law matters including parentage and mediation.
• Excellent communication - a real people person.
• Outstanding client assistance and advisory skills.

Product / Service: Highly-Respected Private Client Law Practice for High Net Worth Individuals
Clients: Interesting, creative, affluent and uber-successful HNW
Culture: Inspiring working environment with people-focused culture
Structure: Limited company. Part Employee Owned (1 of only 35 such law firms in the country)

Team Size: 50 awesome Hedgeholders

About You

• A minimum of 4 years’ post-qualification experience in family law.
• A real passion for family and children matters.
• Confidence in handling your own caseload with minimal supervision.
• Experience working with high net worth clients, ideally with international elements.
• A strong desire to grow or maintain an outstanding reputation in family and children law.
• Exceptional client care and communication skills.
• A commercial mindset with a clear understanding of time recording, billing, and debt management.
• Punctuality, reliability, and a meticulous eye for detail.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills – you\'re great at prioritising and staying on top of your workload.
• A positive, proactive attitude and a willingness to support and collaborate with colleagues.
• Strong IT skills, including familiarity with legal case management systems.
• Bonus: Resolution accreditation would be a welcome asset.

Benefits

• 25/28 days annual leave plus statutory holidays dependent on position
• Life Insurance
• Flu Vouchers
• Company pension
• Profit sharing (Employee Ownership)
• Salary Sacrifice
• Paperless Technology: to make your life easier
• Coaching and Personal Development
• Culture: Inspiring working environment with people-focused culture
• High Pedigree Team

If you’re looking for somewhere you’ll be heard, valued and given real ownership of your future while doing meaningful family law work that genuinely changes lives, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and let’s find out what we can achieve together at Hedges.

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