Legal Director - Family (5401)

Irwin Mitchell LLP; Chichester; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading national law firm is seeking a Senior Associate or Legal Director to join their Family team in Chichester. This role offers autonomy and the chance to lead complex family law cases. Candidates should have significant experience in private Family Law, strong client relationship skills, and a track record of generating their own work. The firm promotes career progression in a supportive environment and offers flexible working options.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous pension schemes

Two paid volunteering days

Health membership benefits

Qualifications

• Significant experience within private Family Law.
• Track record of leading complex cases.
• Proven ability to generate work.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in the growth of the Family team.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Experience in private Family Law

Client relationship skills

Leadership and mentoring

Ability to handle complex cases

Ambition and enthusiasm

Job description

Overview

We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it’s personal or business, we understand that everyone’s situation is different. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Associate or Legal Director to join our award-winning national Family team to continue to grow our offering in Chichester.

This is a superb opportunity to play a key role in the continued growth of a powerhouse National Family team in one of the UK‘s leading law firms. The position offers a high degree of autonomy, strong partner access and excellent career progression opportunities.

About You

• Technically competent, with significant experience within private Family Law
• Used to dealing with and leading on both day-to-day and high value, complex cases
• A natural team player with experience in supervising and mentoring juniors
• Able to build and maintain lasting relationships with clients and third parties and ideally already well established in Chichester
• A proven track record of winning or generating your own work
• Well-rounded client service skills with the ability to emphasise with a wide range of clients in order to resolve the most sensitive and complicated practicalities involved in family break-ups
• Demonstrable ambition, energy and enthusiasm for continuing to build a successful Family law team at the top of the market

Our Values

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Benefits

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them.

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