Managing Associate in City of Westminster

Protecting the interests of families lies at the heart of what we do. Whether it is providing the right advice to help manage relationships or assisting high net worth family governance across generations, cultures, and changing family dynamics, our multi-faceted and flexible approach allows us to provide support around wider concerns. Our family lawyers help unlock what can initially appear to be entrenched positions and facilitate a more comprehensive resolution of challenges that families may face, preventing those concerns subsequently turning into disputes.

Our team is adept at anticipating and meeting the needs of individuals and families in their wider personal and business lives and we assist our clients with reputation management, tax, immigration, trusts, wills, and education as well as matters involving property, art and other luxury assets. We work closely with third party professionals, including therapists, clinical specialists, financial advisers, and cyber security experts to achieve better outcomes for our clients. We appreciate the complexity that wealth brings and assist our high-net-worth clients and their families through all life stages.

We are innovators, leveraging new technologies and utilising non-traditional methods to deliver the best outcome to our clients and take a strategic approach to the issues and aspirations that families have. We can support them in resolving issues constructively and away from the court arena, offering in-house mediation and early neutral evaluation. We encourage parents to put children at the centre of their decision making. We believe in building families too, and support parents undergoing assisted reproduction and surrogacy arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Manage all client work allocated by the Partners and other solicitors within the Group and sometimes across the wider Department.
• Demonstrate excellent case management skills and be able to run client matters (or parts of larger matters) with minimal assistance from Partners.
• Be client focussed with an ability to command the trust and confidence of our clients who expect a first-class service.
• Be able to lead and supervise more junior members of the team under supervision from the Partners.
• Show an interest in mentoring and supporting junior team members with their professional development both formally (through internal training sessions) and informally.
• Be comfortable with undertaking business development both internally and externally.
• Demonstrate a proven track record in meeting standard hours for time recording and consistently contributes within their group.
• Demonstrate the ability to secure repeat work from internal and/or external clients by technical ability.
• Maintain clear communication links with colleagues in the Firm.
• Ensure good working relationships with colleagues, clients and external organisations.

Areas of Work Covered

• Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
• Cohabitation agreements.
• Divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships.
• Financial remedies on divorce/dissolution, including dealing with family businesses, complex trust structures and international issues.
• Disputes concerning the arrangements for children, including applications for leave to remove.
• Relationship breakdown of unmarried couples, including cohabitee disputes under TLATA 1996 and applications for financial relief on behalf of a children under Schedule 1 Children Act 1989.
• Domestic abuse, including applications for non-molestation orders and occupation orders, and issues concerning coercive control.
• Surrogacy and assisted reproduction.

Qualifications

• 6+ PQE gained within Family law.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload.
• Ability to lead and manage others.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/key stakeholders.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Pro-active and takes initiative.
• A great communicator, with the ability to translate between the technical and plain English.

At Mishcon Private, we have a deep understanding of the dynamics and politics of families, family businesses and personal relationships. We understand the issues our clients face and what keeps them awake at night. We know that their concerns go far beyond money and wealth preservation: family issues, reputation, their home, the things they love, or their legacy are far more important. Our team at Mishcon Private comprises art, reputation, property, immigration, tax and wealth planning specialists, alongside tenacious litigators who are highly experienced at dealing with both family and business disputes and complex multi-jurisdictional cases.

We provide practical and inventive solutions, combining our legal expertise with commercial, real-world advice. We never take for granted the privilege we are afforded by our clients to sit alongside them and be entrusted with their most complex and personal problems. The work we do is never just business, it is always personal and the breadth of Mishcon Private enables us to provide our clients with the support they need whatever their issue may be now or in the future.

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm, which now employs over 1400 people with more than 650 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone. With presence in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution. We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.