Senior Associate/Legal Director - Family Law

Irwin Mitchell; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading national Family team as a Senior Associate or Legal Director. This role offers the opportunity to lead complex cases and mentor junior lawyers, fostering a collaborative environment while driving growth in the Southeast. Enjoy a supportive workplace with numerous benefits, including flexible working options and a commitment to well-being.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Flexible pension schemes

Paid volunteering days

Health membership with medical refunds

Qualifications

• Significant experience in private Family Law.
• Experience managing high-value, complex cases.
• Proven track record of client relationship building.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in the growth of the Family team.
• Supervise and mentor juniors.
• Lead on complex Family Law cases.

Skills

Client service skills

Team leadership

Relationship building

Job description

Your Role

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 South of London and in the Southeast.

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 the South East or on the South Coast
• 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

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

• 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.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 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!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.