Senior Associate/Legal Director - Family Law

at  Irwin Mitchell

We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is ‘we’re legal and financial experts that care’ – something you’ll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
We’re always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

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 the South East or on the South Coast
• 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.

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 South of London and in the Southeast.
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.