Family Legal Director

Nelsons; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Job summary

Nelsons, a leading regional law firm in the East Midlands, is seeking an experienced Family Legal Director to lead our Nottingham family team and shape the future of the practice.

The role covers management of privately funded family matters, advising on divorce and financial remedies, mentoring juniors, and driving growth within a national group. Hybrid working and a competitive package are offered to the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Be a qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive with substantial experience in Family Law.
• Demonstrate strong technical expertise across a broad range of family matters.
• Have experience managing complex financial remedy and children cases.
• Possess excellent client care and relationship management skills.
• Show a proven ability to develop business and generate new opportunities.
• Be an effective leader with experience supervising and mentoring others.
• Be commercially aware with a commitment to delivering exceptional client service.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of privately funded family matters.
• Advise clients on divorce, financial remedies, cohabitation disputes and private children matters.
• Handle complex and high-value cases, often involving significant assets.
• Support and develop junior lawyers through supervision and mentoring.
• Drive business development initiatives and strengthen professional networks.
• Contribute to departmental strategy, growth plans and client service standards.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the wider firm.

Skills

Family Law

Leadership

Business development

Client care

Mentoring

Commercial awareness

Education

Qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive

Job description

Family Legal Director

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Family Legal Director to play a key leadership role within our highly regarded Family team in Nottingham. This is an exceptional opportunity for a senior family lawyer looking to help shape the future of a thriving practice while continuing to work on a broad range of high-quality family matters.

Why join Nelsons?

Nelsons is one of the largest and fastest growing law firms in the East Midlands with experts in Leicester, Derby and Nottingham.

In 2023, Nelsons became part of Lawfront, a national group of leading regional law firms dedicated to delivering comprehensive legal support to individuals and businesses nationwide.

Committed to strategic growth, Lawfront is aiming to build a group in the top 10 of UK regional law firms. As part of this group, you will be able to benefit from working locally for a well-respected leading law firm whilst accessing the scale, investment resources, expertise and professional development opportunities of a national organisation.

We look to empower our clients, give them a voice, fight for them, help them seek justice and steer them through complex legal issues they face. The desire to push ourselves forwards to better serve our clients has been a constant throughout our evolution.

With a defined vision and plan for growth, we have created a culture of working together to achieve and are looking to recruit people with ambition, drive and a can-do attitude to be part of our journey.

The successful candidate can expect a competitive package and benefits that you would expect from a leading regional law firm which is part of a group of national scale.

The Role

• Manage a varied caseload of privately funded family matters.
• Advise clients on divorce, financial remedies, cohabitation disputes and private children matters.
• Handle complex and high-value cases, often involving significant assets.
• Support and develop junior lawyers through supervision and mentoring.
• Drive business development initiatives and strengthen professional networks.
• Contribute to departmental strategy, growth plans and client service standards.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the wider firm.

About You

• Be a qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive with substantial experience in Family Law.
• Demonstrate strong technical expertise across a broad range of family matters.
• Have experience managing complex financial remedy and children cases.
• Possess excellent client care and relationship management skills.
• Show a proven ability to develop business and generate new opportunities.
• Be an effective leader with experience supervising and mentoring others.
• Be commercially aware with a commitment to delivering exceptional client service.

What We Offer

As part of this role, you’ll be given all the tools to succeed and can expect dedicated training, professional support and a host of benefits.

Extras:

• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and holiday purchase
• Healthcare cash plan
• Travel benefits
• Pension
• Well-being programme
• Discounts on selected legal service
• Hybrid Working