Family Solicitor

JR United Kingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading law firm as a Family Solicitor, where your expertise in family law will be valued. This role offers the chance to manage your own case load, providing essential legal support to clients in various family matters. With a focus on professional development, you will thrive in a supportive environment that encourages personal growth and career advancement. Enjoy a competitive salary and a range of excellent benefits, including additional holiday days and referral rewards. Become part of a firm that prioritizes client care and fosters a collaborative culture, allowing you to make a meaningful impact in the legal field.

Benefits

Additional holiday days during Christmas

Referral rewards

Option to buy or sell annual leave

Discounted legal fees

Birthday off

Qualifications

• 3+ years PQE as a Family Solicitor or equivalent qualifications.
• Proven track record in handling family law cases from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Provide family law advice and manage own case load.
• Develop strong professional relationships with clients and referrers.

Skills

Family Law

Client Relationship Management

Advocacy

Case Management

Organizational Skills

Legal Knowledge Update

Education

Solicitor Qualification (3 years PQE)

CILEX

CLC

Tools

Case Management Systems

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Davisons Law is a leading law firm with a strong presence in Family Law. The firm is known for its client-focused approach, high-quality legal services, and investment in our Team’s personal and career development. This is an excellent opportunity for a Family Solicitor who is passionate about legally supporting Clients with a wide range of Family matters.

What you’ll do

When you join the team with Davisons Law as an experienced Family Solicitor, you will provide accurate family law advice to clients and handle matters from initial instruction through to completion unsupervised.You will manage your own case load with all aspects of family law including divorce, financial remedy, separation, co-habitation, pre and post nuptial agreements, domestic violence, and children law. You will be the first point of contact for enquiries, and you will either handle these or allocate them. This is a new role at this office therefore you will not take over an existing case load.

Ideally you will be a fully qualified experienced solicitor with at least 3 years PQE, although other qualifications (i.e., CILEX and CLC) will be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Have a proven track record of conducting proceedings from commencement to conclusion.
• Be passionate about developing and maintaining strong professional working relationships with clients, and referrers.
• Support the development of the Family Law Department and the Company in growing its client base by the delivery of an excellent service, your local connections and through supporting networking events.
• Advocacy experience
• Manage own work allocation must have proven track record as a Family Law Fee Earner
• Process cases in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Strong organisation skillset, IT literate and experience of using case management systems.
• Be commercially driven and astute, understanding the importance of business targets and their impact to the practice, generating a fee income in line with agreed targets.
• To have excellent administrative, planning, organisation and time management skills.
• Experience of handling client enquiries both face to face, remotely and by telephone.
• Have a firm and functional knowledge within family law, continuously updating your legal knowledge and staying informed about relevant legal developments.

What’s in it for you:

Working with Davisons Law as a Family Solicitor is more than just a job. We give all our employees the opportunity to develop and shape their futures with us.Employees at Davisons Law can take control of their own career by following our Leadership or Technical career path.

We offer a competitive salary plus access to a range of excellent benefits, including:

• Additional holiday days during our Christmas shutdown so that you can enjoy time with your friends and family.
• Referral rewards
• Option to buy or sell 3 days of your annual leave.
• Discounted legal fees.
• Your birthday off in addition to your annual leave entitlement

You will also be able to join your colleagues if you wish, at Davisons social events.

• Dress down & treat day on the last Friday of each month.
• Annual Christmas company celebration
• Localised office events

Join Davisons Law as a Family Solicitor and be part of a law firm that values you and provides opportunities to act with purpose and thrive.