Senior Family Solicitor

Are you an experienced Family Partner looking to take the reigns of a department with significant investment from the management board? This is an exciting role to join a highly specialist firm with offices London and the South-East. They have grown and now offer a full service ripe for cross referral work across their multiple departments. Despite consistent growth they have still managed to retain their collegiate and family focused feel.

The firm

This firm punch well above their weight in quality of work and are considered to be one of the most entrepreneurial legal practices based in the South East. This firm has had comprehensive success working in broad array of legal sectors, and this reflects on their great employee retention rates, sense of fun throughout every department, interdepartmental teamwork and cohesion, and close relationships with their clients. They have a tremendous sense of fair play, fun, and every employee enjoys going to work every day.

The practice is undergoing a real surge of investment at the moment and they are looking to grow over all of their practice areas. Despite Covid-19, many of their departments are thriving and several have hit records in terms of fee-generation and matters completed.

This practice boasts a commercially minded culture but not so much they have lost their family friendly values - this rare blend makes this practice a truly happy ship to work for. Their focus on quality of work and culture has paved the way for further future success.

The role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Family solicitor to take the reins of a growing department with significant investment from the partners.

This department deals with a broad variety of privately funded family matters, ranging from:

• Divorces and financial arrangements
• Ancillary relief
• Civil partnerships
• Pre /post-nuptial agreements.
• Children act matters

In this role you will managing files of the above nature, and assisting in the further growth of the team. There will be a heavy onus on growing and building up the department through business development or a portfolio of existing clients.

This family team deals with a lot of cross-referral work and they are seeking an ambitious individual to handle this and take it to the next level.

Requirements

• You will be a family solicitor and you will be 7+ years PQE
• You will have strong experience managing your own files autonomously, but enjoy working as part of a wider team
• Experience in management is desirable, but not essential
• You will thrive in the opportunity in making a department your own

Whats on offer?

• An above market rate salary dependant on experience
• Significant investment from the firm's management board
• The opportunity to grow a department with exceptional potential

This is a unique and rare opportunity for a Senior Family Lawyer to manage a department based in Farnham, Surrey.