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Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK)

Family Solicitor

Manchester
Posted about 23 hours ago
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Job Opportunity: Family Solicitor

We have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Family Solicitor to join our national family team in Manchester.

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Client Interaction: Dealing with sensitive matters under time pressures.
  • Skills Required:
    • Excellent communication, organization, and time-keeping skills.
    • Ability to delegate work to other team members.
    • Holding and attending new client meetings, providing realistic advice, setting expectations, and managing negotiations.
    • Ensuring that time recording and billing are managed to achieve personal chargeable hours, billing, and cash collection targets.
    • Support team in place to assist.

Business Development

  • Engage in the development of the business for the Family Team.
  • Attend networking events to develop personal contacts.
  • Assist with marketing opportunities to raise the team’s profile.

What We Offer In Return

Core Benefits

  • 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
  • Option to buy or sell up to 5 extra days of leave
  • Employee referral bonus scheme
  • Annual bonus scheme (discretionary)

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Health & Wellbeing

  • Access to Aviva Digicare+ (health checks, Digital GP, mental health support, second medical opinions, and more)
  • BUPA private healthcare after 1 year (single cover, tax applies)
  • Employee Assistance Programme (free counselling and wellbeing webinars)
  • Health & wellbeing perks including gym discounts, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions, and more
  • Dental insurance

Financial & Protection

  • Life assurance cover
  • Income protection if you’re unable to work long-term due to illness or injury
  • Workplace pension (5% employer contribution after probation)

Extras

  • Access to a Benefits Hub with discounts on shopping, travel, food, and entertainment
  • Free legal support and discounted legal services

Important to Know

Some benefits are dependent on passing probation or length of service, and may change over 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 you with 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.

The S+G Way

  • 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.

For Further Information

Please contact SL.Baylis@slatergordon.uk

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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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Skills

Divorce Law
Matrimonial Finances
Private Children Work
Cohabitation Disputes
Client Care
Team Supervision
Negotiation
Time Recording
Billing Management
Business Development
Networking
Marketing
Communication
Organisation
Time Management
Delegation

Location

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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