At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and establish a new family law office while managing your own caseload.
- Company: A growing specialist family law firm with a supportive culture.
- Benefits: Flexible working hours, competitive salary, and comprehensive health benefits.
- Other info: Genuine support for work-life balance and career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape your own office and team with the backing of an established firm.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in family law with strong client care and business development skills.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Location: Flexible – agreed location across West/South Yorkshire
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Hours: Full-time or part-time
Working Arrangements: Flexible, with hybrid/homeworking options available
An exciting opportunity to build something of your own. A growing specialist family law firm is looking for an experienced Family Solicitor or Legal Executive to establish and lead a brand-new office in a location agreed with the successful candidate.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious family lawyer who wants to take the next step in their career, develop a local presence and ultimately build a team, without having to start from scratch.
You will have the backing of an established and respected family law firm, with support from the existing offices across marketing, business development, administration, compliance and operations, allowing you to concentrate on building the office, developing relationships and growing your own practice.
The Role
You will take responsibility for establishing and developing the new office, while continuing to manage your own private family caseload. This will include:
- Managing a varied private family caseload, including divorce, separation, private children and financial remedy matters
- Advising on cohabitation disputes and pre/post-nuptial and separation agreements
- Managing your own clients and files through to conclusion
- Developing a local referral network and professional profile
- Networking and generating new business within the local community
- Contributing to the location, development and growth strategy of the new office
- Recruiting, supervising and developing a local team as the office grows
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across the firm's existing offices
TOLATA experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
About You
The firm is ideally looking for a solicitor or legal executive with 8+ years' family law experience, although applications from candidates with less experience will be considered where they can demonstrate the right technical ability, commercial awareness and business-development potential.
You should have:
- Strong experience in private family law
- Experience handling private children and financial remedy work
- A strong track record of managing your own caseload
- Excellent client care and communication skills
- Commercial awareness and a strong billing history
- The confidence and ambition to develop a local practice
- An interest in networking and business development
- Leadership potential and, ideally, experience of supervising others
Why Join?
This is much more than simply joining another family law team. You will have the opportunity to shape and lead a new office, with the infrastructure and support of an established specialist firm behind you.
You’ll benefit from:
- The opportunity to establish and lead your own office
- Full support from the existing firm across operations, compliance, administration, marketing and business development
- The opportunity to build and lead your own team
- Flexible full-time or part-time working
- Flexible start and finish times where possible
- Agreed homeworking days where the role allows
- Competitive remuneration
- Genuine long-term career progression
- Regular professional support and file reviews
- Paid birthday day off
- Christmas office closure
- Health cash plan and 24/7 remote GP access
- Workplace pension and death-in-service cover
- Discretionary rewards and bonus opportunities
A firm that genuinely understands family commitments. The firm’s values extend to its own people as well as its clients. It has deliberately maintained a personal, supportive and family-focused culture as it has grown.
The firm recognises that family life doesn’t always fit neatly around traditional working hours. Where client and business requirements allow, it is happy to consider temporary adjustments to working hours during school holidays and other periods when childcare can be challenging.
Flexible working isn’t simply a policy on paper - the firm takes individual circumstances into account and aims to support colleagues in building a successful career alongside their family commitments.
The Opportunity
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced family lawyer who wants greater autonomy, leadership responsibility and the chance to build something from the ground up, while still having the support and security of an established specialist firm.
The location of the new office will be agreed with the successful candidate, taking into account their existing network, local knowledge and the commercial opportunities available.
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