Family Lawyer

Stowe Family Law LLP; Leicester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A family law firm in Leicester is seeking a highly skilled family lawyer to grow their East Midlands offering. This role offers the chance to run your own caseload and collaborate with a supportive team, ensuring high-quality client service. Ideal candidates are chartered legal executives or solicitors eager for progression and comfortable managing sensitive cases. Flexible working and numerous benefits are included.

Benefits

Wellbeing culture

Volunteer leave

26 days holiday

Enhanced family leave

Medicash health insurance

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Frustrated by lack of progression opportunities, flexibility, or challenge.
• Comfortable assisting on or running own caseload of finance and children cases.
• Desire to progress career and develop.

Responsibilities

• Assist on or run own caseload of finance and children cases.
• Collaborate with internal network of family lawyers.
• Work with dedicated support teams to deliver high-quality client service.

Skills

Empathy

Ambition

Collaboration

Education

Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor

Job description

Overview

Be a pivotal part of growing our East Midlands offering! You are a highly skilled family 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 you, spot your potential and help you get there. Could you be our next success story?

We’re looking for someone to help grow our family law practice in the East Midlands, with a supportive environment that enables growth, flexibility and meaningful client work.

Responsibilities

• Assist on or run your own caseload of finance and children cases with support from the team
• Collaborate with our internal network of family lawyers for advice and peer support
• Work with dedicated support teams (secretaries, legal assistants, billing, credit control, client care) to focus on delivering high-quality client service

Requirements

• It’s likely you’re a Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor within family who is frustrated by lack of progression opportunities, flexibility or challenge
• You’ll be comfortable assisting on or running 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

• 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 services, dental, counselling, gym discounts
• Training grants
• Life Assurance
• Contributory pension
• Flexible working

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