Family Lawyer

Stowe Family Law LLP; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm that prioritizes your growth and wellbeing. As a family lawyer in Leicester, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape your career while being supported by a dedicated team. With a flexible work environment and tailored growth opportunities, you can truly make your mark in family law. This innovative firm emphasizes mental health and offers comprehensive benefits, ensuring you thrive both personally and professionally. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and join a supportive community, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Mental Wellbeing days

Access to counselling sessions

Volunteering leave

Diversity public holidays

26 days holiday

Enhanced adoption, maternity and paternity pay

Paid leave for fertility treatment

Emergency dependants leave

Bereavement leave

Medicash health insurance

Qualifications

• Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor with family law experience.
• Ambitious and eager to progress in a supportive environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist or manage your own caseload of finance and children cases.
• Provide empathetic support to clients during difficult times.

Skills

Family Law

Empathy

Client Management

Case Management

Education

Chartered Legal Executive

Solicitor

Job description

Be a pivotal part of growing our new Leicester offering!

You're a highly skilledfamily lawyer with plenty of potential. You're comfortable and successful where you are – but deep down, you know you're capable of more.

What if your next step wasn't just a new job, but the chance to build something brand new? With a firm that will invest in yourself, spot your potential and help you get there.

Could you be our next success story?

• Flexible work environment: Whether you prefer working from home or the office, you design how your working week looks and we can support whatever works for you - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/culture-and-community/

• Tailored growth opportunities: Experience personal and professional development without any limitations, our structure offers a diverse range of growth opportunities. There are no 'glass ceilings' hindering your progress, just let us know how you want to develop and we'll work together to achieve it - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/helping-our-people-grow/

• Comprehensive support teams: We couldn't do it without them. Our dedicated support teams, ranging from secretaries to legal assistants, billing to credit control, and client care, enable you to focus on your clients and engage in the exciting aspects of family law.

• Emphasis on wellbeing: Prioritise your wellbeing, we have incorporated feedback from our network of mental health champions to foster the best approach. Additionally, we offer wellness leave and have partnered with Lifeworks to provide comprehensive physical, mental, and emotional support. Stowe will support you and your career.

• Our legal teams: We're lucky, we've got the largest internal network of family lawyers in the UK for you to get support from, there's always someone available to get advice from - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/about-stowe-f...

• Cutting-edge marketing: Leverage our leading marketing capabilities supported by our talented marketing team. Check out some of their content, explore our podcast on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1hil0upAiohsIqTz6ui5nJ

Requirements

• It’s likely you’re a Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor within family that’s frustrated because of a lack of progression opportunities, flexibility or challenge
• You’ll be comfortable assisting on orrunning your own caseload of finance and children cases with support from the team
• You’re ambitious, you want to progress your career and you want to develop
• You understand the need for empathy and sensitivity for clients going through an incredibly difficult period

Benefits

Read about our full benefits package here - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/employee-bene...

• Bonus
• A wellbeing culture including Mental Wellbeing days, and access to counselling sessions
• Volunteering leave
• Diversity public holidays
• 26 days holiday
• Enhanced adoption, maternity and paternity pay
• Paid leave for fertility treatment
• Emergency dependants leave
• Bereavement leave
• Medicash health insurance - 24/7 GP’s, dental, counselling, gym discounts
• Training grants
• Life Assurance
• Contributory pension
• Flexible working

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