Family Solicitor

GMP Recruitment are proud to be partnered with one of the West Midland’s leading Legal Firms. We are supporting their recruitment for a Family Solicitor to join their Cotteridge office in Birmingham on a full time, permanent basis.

This position is working Monday - Friday 09:00am - 17:00pm and you will receive a competitive salary, based on experience.

To be a successful candidate for this role, you must ideally be a fully qualified senior solicitor (3 years + PQE), although other qualifications (i.e. CILEX and CLC) will also be considered.

Family Solicitor main duties:

• Running and managing your own caseload within the family team under the supervision of the director
• Providing advice to individuals and families including but not limited to the following areas: - Private Law Children Matters - Divorce - Financial Settlements - Separation - Domestic Violence - Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements - Cohabitee disputes.
• Dealing with complex and time-sensitive matters
• Taking new instructions
• Legal Research
• Advocacy
• Assisting the Director on occasions
• Dealing with new enquiries and converting to Instruction
• Networking and Business Development

Required skills and experience:

• Be commercially astute, understanding the importance of business targets and their impact to the practice.
• Have excellent levels of communication, both written and verbal
• Have a good academic record; training with a leading national or regional firm is an advantage.
• Have strong IT skills
• Have a firm and functional knowledge within family law
• Have experience and be confident in managing your own caseload of privately funded work
• Demonstrate initiative and the drive to produce a high standard of service to our clients
• Possess high levels of speed and accuracy
• Be highly organized, methodical and adaptable
• Commercially driven
• Have a proven ability to bring in work and be confident in business development

This is a great opportunity to join a vastly successful legal firm who pride themselves on delivering exceptional service to their clients.

If the above role sounds perfect for you, or you require more information, please click apply or contact GMP Recruitment directly.

GMP Recruitment are recruiting for this role on behalf of their client and are acting as an Employment Agency.