Family Associate

JMC Legal Recruitment; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JMC Legal Recruitment is helping a leading Top 100 firm in Bristol recruit a Family Associate to join a highly regarded L500-ranked team. The firm is investing heavily in its offering to individuals and continues to prioritise family and private client work.

You will handle high‑quality financial remedy matters, private children work, and international cases, with scope to collaborate across the firm’s networks.

Qualifications

• PQE 2+ in Family Law with strong private client exposure.
• Experience handling high‑net‑worth financial remedy matters.
• Excellent technical and client management skills.
• Interest in cross‑border or international family work.
• Ambition to progress within a highly regarded team.

Responsibilities

• Handle complex financial remedy matters.
• Work on private children and cohabitation disputes.
• Manage high-value asset cases.
• Involve international and cross-border matters.
• Develop client relationships and business opportunities.

Skills

Private Family Law

Financial Remedy

Client Management

Cross-border Work

Education

2+ PQE in Family Law

Job description

Family Associate | Bristol | Highly L500 Ranked Team

A strong opportunity for a Family Associate to join a highly regarded, L500 ranked Family team within a leading Top 100 firm.

What makes this particularly interesting is the firm's commitment to continuing to invest heavily in its services to individuals. At a time when some firms in the Bristol market are placing greater emphasis on their corporate and commercial offering, this firm continues to see Family and Private Client as important areas of its long-term strategy.

The result is a genuine opportunity to join a team that is being invested in, rather than one that is simply maintaining its existing position.

The team handles high quality, complex family matters for HNW individuals, business owners and professional clients, often involving significant assets, complex financial arrangements and international considerations.
There is also the opportunity to become involved in cross-border Family work, giving you exposure to matters involving international assets, jurisdictions and clients.

The wider firm has an established Sports team with strong relationships across the sector, creating the potential to work alongside colleagues and become involved with high calibre sports clients where the Family work overlaps.

The Role

You will join an established and growing Family team, working closely with experienced Partners and senior lawyers across a broad range of privately funded work.

Your caseload will include:

• Complex financial remedy matters
• Private children work
• Cohabitation disputes
• HNW and complex asset cases
• Matters with international and cross-border elements

The quality of the work is a key part of the opportunity. You will have the chance to take on increasingly complex matters, work closely with senior lawyers and develop your own client relationships.

There is also scope to get involved in business development and build your profile in the market, with the team supportive of lawyers who want to develop their own networks and progress their careers.

The Person

The team is looking for a Family Solicitor with around 2+ PQE, although the quality and relevance of your experience will be more important than a strict PQE requirement.

You will ideally have:

• Strong privately funded Family experience, particularly financial remedy
• Experience dealing with complex matters and high value assets
• Excellent technical and client management skills
• An interest in cross-border or international Family work
• A commercial approach and genuine interest in developing client relationships
• Ambition to progress within a highly regarded team

Why consider it?

This is an opportunity to join a firm that is actively investing in its offering to individuals, at a time when the direction of travel for Family and private client is not the same across the Bristol market.

You will be working on high quality, sophisticated Family matters for an enviable client base, with the opportunity to develop experience across complex financial work, international matters and potentially the firm's established Sports network.

For someone who wants to build a long-term career in Family within a firm that is genuinely committed to growing its individual client offering, there is a lot to be said for being part of that investment from the outset.
Flexible working is available, with the firm taking a modern approach to how its lawyers work.