Legal Director - Family

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Your Role

and What You'll Be Doing

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Associate or Legal Director to join our award-winning national Family team to continue to grow our offering in Chichester.

This is a superb opportunity to play a key role in the continued growth of a powerhouse National Family team in one of the UK‘s leading law firms. The position offers a high degree of autonomy, strong partner access and excellent career progression opportunities. 

About You
  • Technically competent, with significant experience within private Family Law
  • Used to dealing with and leading on both day-to-day and high value, complex cases
  • A natural team player with experience in supervising and mentoring juniors
  • Able to build and maintain lasting relationships with clients and third parties and ideally already well established in Chichester
  • A proven track record of winning or generating your own work
  • Well-rounded client service skills with the ability to emphasise with a wide range of clients in order to resolve the most sensitive and complicated practicalities involved in family break-ups
  • Demonstrable ambition, energy and enthusiasm for continuing to build a successful Family law team at the top of the market

    • We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

  • To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
  • To be approachable and caring
  • To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
  • To be efficient in the provision of our services
  • To work with a foundation of integrity.

    • If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

    Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
  • 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
  • Generous and flexible pension schemes.
  • Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
  • Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

    • We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

    We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

    Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

    Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

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    Location:
    Chichester
    Job Type:
    FullTime

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