Family Lawyer

4 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Slater Gordon Full time

We have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Family lawyer to join our national family team.

We are looking for a candidate who will manage their own case load (divorce, matrimonial finances, private children work and cohabitation disputes), assist the other Solicitors in the team and provide a high level of client care, whilst maintaining adherence to our national standards.

We are looking for a qualified individual who has Family Law experience, being able to apply their skills and experience to cases.  As you will be dealing with sensitive matters under time pressures, it is vital that you have excellent communication, organisation and time keeping skills. We would also expect you to be able to delegate to Trainees/Paralegals and members of our support team where appropriate, ensuring that work is completed in a timely and accurate manner and to an excellent standard.

You would also be expected to hold and attend new client meetings and provide realistic advice, setting expectations, whilst handling negotiations, alongside ensuring that time recording and billing is managed to enable achievement of personal chargeable hours, billing and cash collection targets.

We are looking for a candidate who will engage in development of the business for the Family Team by attendance at networking events to develop their own contacts and who will assist with marketing opportunities to raise the team’s profile.

What we offer in return:

We have a wide range of core and voluntary benefits:




  • Hybrid working – 2 days per week working in the office (must live a reasonable distance to commute to the office)
  • 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday – Flexible and agile working environment
  • 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
  • Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
  • Employee Referral scheme with payments up to £2000 per referral
  • Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)
  • Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing you with services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions and much more
  • Employee Assistance Programme where you can access free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
  • Group Income Protection which will support you with an income if you are unable to work long term, as a result of a qualifying illness or injury
  • Health and Wellbeing Programmes and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and much more
  • Life Assurance cover
  • Workplace pension
  • Benefits Hub providing discounts to over 700 services including cinema tickets, food and drink, travel, and high street stores
  • Dental Insurance
  • Free legal help and discounted lawyer led legal services


Your Professional Development

We will support and encourage you with developing your career with an award- winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.

Our Values

Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service. That's why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values.

How we work is guided by the S+G Way. This means:

· We do what we say we will

· We don’t wait we create

· We own it, we sort it

· We respect and encourage each other

· We make time to live

The S+G Way defines the specific behaviours and actions that our colleagues and our customers care about the most. We know this, because our colleagues helped to create the way, through a series of interactive workshops and interviews.

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