Senior Associate

Stowe Family Law LLP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A family law firm in London is seeking a Senior Associate to manage a diverse caseload while mentoring junior colleagues. This role offers flexible working conditions and abundant opportunities for professional development. Candidates should be chartered legal executives or solicitors with a focus on family law and strong leadership skills. The firm promotes wellness and flexibility among its employees.

Benefits

Flexible working

Mental Wellbeing days

Volunteering leave

26 days holiday

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Medicash health insurance

Contributory pension

Qualifications

• You’re a Chartered Legal Executive, Associate or Solicitor within family law.
• You’ll be comfortable leading your own caseload of finance and children cases.
• You understand the need for empathy and sensitivity for clients.

Responsibilities

• Work on a varied and rewarding caseload while guiding less experienced colleagues.
• Develop leadership skills and shape how to work with clients.

Skills

Empathy

Ambition

Leadership

Education

Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Associate, you’ll have the chance to work on a varied and rewarding caseload while guiding and supporting more junior colleagues. It’s a role that offers genuine scope to grow - whether that’s developing your leadership skills, shaping how you work with clients, or taking the next step in your career. You’ll be part of a supportive team that values collaboration, personal development, and helping you reach your full potential.

Why we stand out

• Flexible work environment: Whether you prefer working from home or the office, you design how your working week looks and we can support whatever works for you - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/culture-and-community/
• Tailored growth opportunities: Experience personal and professional development without any limitations, our structure offers a diverse range of growth opportunities. There are no 'glass ceilings' hindering your progress, just let us know how you want to develop and we\'ll work together to achieve it - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/helping-our-people-grow/
• Comprehensive support teams: We couldn't do it without them. Our dedicated support teams, ranging from secretaries to legal assistants, billing to credit control, and client care, enable you to focus on your clients and engage in the exciting aspects of family law.
• Emphasis on wellbeing: Prioritise your wellbeing, we have incorporated feedback from our network of mental health champions to foster the best approach. Additionally, we offer wellness leave and have partnered with Lifeworks to provide comprehensive physical, mental, and emotional support. Stowe will support you and your career.
• Our legal teams: We're lucky, we've got the largest internal network of family lawyers in the UK for you to get support from, there's always someone available to get advice from - https://careers.stowefamilylaw.co.uk/about-stowe-f
• Cutting-edge marketing: Leverage our leading marketing capabilities supported by our talented marketing team. Check out some of their content, explore our podcast on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1hil0upAiohsIqTz6ui5nJ
• Tailored case management system: Benefit from our customised case management system featuring efficient workflows designed to streamline your processes. We're constantly thinking of ways to do things better.

Requirements

• It’s likely you’re a Chartered Legal Executive, Associate or Solicitor within family who’s frustrated because of a lack of progression opportunities, flexibility or challenge
• You’ll be comfortable leading 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

• £70,000-£85,000
• 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’s, dental, counselling, gym discounts
• Training grants
• Life Assurance
• Contributory pension
• Flexible working

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