Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK)
Family Lawyer
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Family Solicitor Opportunity
We have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Family Solicitor to join our national family team in The Wirral.
About the Role
We are looking for a specialist Family lawyer with extensive experience of dealing with a varied caseload of divorce, matrimonial finances, private children work, and cohabitation disputes, supervising members of the team and providing a high level of client care, whilst maintaining adherence to our national standards.
- Excellent communication, organisation, and time-keeping skills
- Ability to delegate work to other team members
- Attendance at new client meetings and providing realistic advice
- Handling negotiations and managing time recording and billing
- Engagement in business development by attending networking events and assisting with marketing opportunities
Key Responsibilities
- Handle sensitive matters under time pressures
- Provide high-level client care
- Supervise team members
- Delegate work effectively
- Attend networking events to develop business
- Assist with marketing opportunities
What We Offer In Return
- 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
- 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
- Employee Referral scheme
- Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)
- Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions, and much more
- Employee Assistance Programme with free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
- Group Income Protection for support with an income if unable to work long term due to 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
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Some benefits listed above are subject to passing probation or are length of service related. Benefits may be adjusted/removed from time to time.
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 a range of internal learning resources.
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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.
Contact Information
For further information, please contact SL.Baylis@slatergordon.uk
Please Note - Vacancies may close prior to the expiry date displayed, subject to volume of applications received.
The Company
The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.
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