Associate - Family

4 months ago

London, United Kingdom JMC Legal Recruitment Full time

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- GBP£65,000.00-GBP£75,000.00- City of London, London- Permanent**Are you a Family Solicitor 3-6 PQE looking to join an award-winning Legal 500 practice in London with a strong brand and presence across London and the South East? This highly ranked law firm is rated for both quality of work and the quality of life their lawyers live.**

**The Firm**

This Top 200 firm has grown consistently since its establishment in the 1970s. The firm provides a comprehensive range of advice to both businesses and individuals. It is well managed, with a strong leadership team.
Partners are more accessible than in other similar-sized firms. This way of working has helped more junior lawyers obtain a level of PQE ahead of their years.

As a general overview, the firm provides a comprehensive range of commercial, dispute resolution and litigation, employment, cyber security and cyber-crime, corporate, intellectual property, real estate and technology, and media and telecoms advice to both businesses and individuals.

**The Role**

**The firm is seeking to hire a Family Solicitor 3-6 PQE into their flourishing London office.**

In this role, you will work as a member of the Family team alongside the other fee earners in the Group, assisting senior members of the team on their caseload, and supporting the Partners in particular.

**Responsibilities and duties**:

- To participate and contribute to the Family team to ensure an effective working environment, supporting other Senior Associates and Partners on more complex matters as appropriate
- Attend the internal training programme and other relevant technical training to ensure that skills and knowledge remain up-to-date.
- To attend and contribute to team meetings.
- Continuously develop their own technical expertise.
- Maintain awareness of the relevant legal markets specifically relating to Family work.
- Work as part of the Family team dealing with, but not limited to national and international matters: divorce; financial disputes; matrimonial arbitration/mediation; pre-nuptial agreements; child arrangement agreements; child abduction etc.
- Any other legal work, as requested by the senior fee-earners in the group.
- To be responsible for ensuring achievement of own key financial targets, including fees, contribution and payment of debts and disbursements.
- Maintaining accurate data on case manager and the firm's intranet.
- To monitor own performance in relation to the number of live files, file closures, file openings, billing, time recording and to take appropriate action to ensure targets are met.
- Scope all matters appropriately, including use of budget templates, delivering work on time and on budget and understand the necessity of streamlining and efficiency in delivering a cost effective service to clients on all matters.
- To be responsible for the delivery of the service to the client, ensuring that the highest standards of client care are maintained so that clients use DMHS again and recommend the firm to others.
- To assist with marketing and business development initiatives such as writing for e-newsletters and/or attending seminars.

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required**:

- Previous experience of divorce; matrimonial finance disputes; pre-nuptial agreements; Children Act; matrimonial arbitration/mediation; cohabitation disputes etc.
- Knowledge of general family related legislation and relevant case law.
- Able to effectively manage their time to achieve client and internal deadlines.
- Understanding the importance of client care with an ability to deal with a wide range of clients with differing objectives including being able to understand and recommend pragmatic solutions for the client.
- Able to work within a team and provide support to other Senior Associates and Partners as appropriate.
- Confident Excel skills sufficient to enable the reviewing of relevant matters.
- Competent IT skills including Outlook, Word, Digital Dictation and Axxia.
- Ability to draft documentation, with attention to detail.
- Understanding of the strategy and vision of the firm.
- Communicate effectively with clients, in writing, over the telephone and in meetings.
- Convey technical legal information in an effective and accessible way.

**What's on offer?**
- A highly competitive package based on experience
- Legal 500 ranked work and the opportunity to work alongside leading individuals.
- Progression is achievable, with a clear line of sight to move up.
- A culturally lovely firm, where the people are at the heart of the business and work-life balance is valued.

**This is a stand-out opportunity for a Family Solicitor (Associate 3-6 PQE) to join this highly-ranked practice from their office in London.**

**Charlie Simpkin**

Associate Director
- City of London

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