Family Solicitor

JMC Legal Recruitment; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary negotiable

Hybrid and flexible working

Modern offices

Career development

Autonomy to build your practice

Job summary

JMC Legal Recruitment is supporting a well-established regional firm opening a flagship Burgess Hill office and recruiting experienced Family Solicitors to build the family team from day one.

You’ll manage your own family law caseload with autonomy, supported by senior colleagues and robust firm resources, in a growing practice. This is a rare chance to shape growth and culture with hybrid working and genuine development opportunities.

Qualifications

• 2+ PQE in Family Law
• Strong technical grounding across matrimonial finance, children matters, and disputes
• Ambitious to build your own practice and help establish the family team
• Desire to influence growth strategy and office culture

Responsibilities

• Manage your own family law caseload independently from day one
• Develop client relationships in a thriving market area
• Shape the office culture and team approach with genuine autonomy
• Access senior support across the firm for complex issues
• Work with full firm resources and development opportunities

Skills

2+ PQE in Family Law

Job description

Family Solicitor | 2+ PQE | Burgess Hill, West Sussex

Be Part of Building Something New (While Growing Your Family Law Practice)

A well-established regional firm is opening a flagship office in Burgess Hill, a significant expansion into a growing market area with a full-service team across multiple practice areas.

They're recruiting experienced Family Solicitors to help establish and develop their family law offering from day one. This is more than a job relocation. It's a genuine opportunity to build a practice, work with real autonomy, and shape how a new office develops.

If you're ready to step beyond managing a caseload and actually influence an office's growth and culture, this is rare.

The Opportunity

You’ll be one of the founding lawyers establishing the family team in a new flagship office:

• Manage your own family law caseload independently from day one
• Develop client relationships in a thriving market area
• Actively shape the office culture and team approach
• Work with genuine autonomy while accessing senior support across the firm
• Influence the family practice’s growth strategy as the Burgess Hill office establishes itself
• Tap into full firm resources: modern offices, strong administrative and paralegal support, real investment in your development

This isn't about proving yourself in an under-resourced satellite office. The firm is investing properly, purpose-built offices, experienced colleagues available across locations, and genuine backing for the expansion.

The Firm

A regional, full-service practice genuinely committed to investing in its people and infrastructure.

What they understand, and what often gets overlooked: strong administrative and paralegal support, modern working environments, and real investment in staff. That directly affects the quality of your work and your development as a lawyer.

The Work

You’ll build a varied family law caseload:

• Divorce and financial settlements for individuals and families
• Private children matters including arrangements and disputes
• Nuptial agreements and cohabitation disputes
• Family mediation and alternative dispute resolution
• Support clients through emotionally complex family transitions

You’ll manage your own matters independently while knowing experienced family lawyers are available for support on particularly complex issues.

About You

• 2+ PQE in Family Law (flexible for the right candidate, no upper limit)
• Strong technical grounding across matrimonial finance, children law, relationship disputes
• Comfortable working independently while knowing support is there
• Client-focused and genuinely empathetic approach to family matters
• Ambitious to build your own practice and help establish the family team
• Seeking genuine growth opportunity, not just a change of office location

What's On Offer

• Salary negotiable reflecting your experience and background
• Performance-based rewards and bonus scheme
• Hybrid and flexible working including part-time options (typically 60% office attendance)
• Modern, purpose-built offices in a flagship Burgess Hill location
• Strong paralegal and administrative support (not just marketing, genuinely embedded in how they work)
• Career development within a growing, full-service firm
• Real autonomy to build your practice within a supportive structure
• Shape something new: help establish the family law offering in a significant office expansion

Why This Works

Burgess Hill is growing. The firm has committed to a flagship location in a prominent building. This expansion is genuinely strategic, not speculative.

You’re not joining a struggling practice or a token satellite office. You’re being recruited to help establish something significant with proper institutional backing. That means access to resources, experience, and support, plus genuine autonomy to shape how things work.

The commitment to strong administrative support and modern offices isn’t corporate speak. It’s how they actually operate. That directly translates to your ability to deliver quality work and develop a thriving practice.

If you’re a family lawyer ready to move beyond managing files and actually help shape an office’s future, with autonomy, proper support, and genuine opportunity, this is it.