Location: Flexible across Cartwright King Offices (Hybrid – Office & Home)
Experience / Qualification: Minimum 8 years' PQE
Salary: Dependant on experience and PQE
Hours: 35 hours per week
Holiday: 26 days + Bank Holidays (plus your birthday off after one year of service)
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled family solicitor with significant experience in advising privately paying clients on all aspects of relationship breakdown, divorce and financial matters. The successful candidate will manage a varied caseload of high-quality private family work while contributing to the continued growth and success of the department through business development and networking activities.
Managing a caseload of privately funded family law matters from inception to conclusion.Advising clients on:
- Divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships.
- Financial remedy proceedings.
- High-net-worth financial settlements.
- Property and asset division.
- Pension sharing arrangements.
- Cohabitation disputes.
- Separation agreements.
- Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
Conducting negotiations and representing clients throughout court proceedings where necessary.
Building and maintaining strong client relationships, delivering exceptional client care and service.
Developing referral relationships with professional contacts, including financial advisers, accountants and other introducers.
Contributing to marketing and business development initiatives.
Supporting and mentoring junior members of the team where appropriate.
Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and firm procedures.
The need to be:
- Be self-motivated
- Be able to work to targets and deadlines
- Having the ability to work with others- internal and external
- Able to operate under own initiative
- Qualified Solicitor in England & Wales.
- Minimum 8 years’ PQE in Family Law.
- Extensive experience managing a private family law caseload.
- Strong expertise in divorce and financial remedy matters.
- Excellent technical knowledge of family law and current developments.
- Proven ability to manage complex and high-value financial cases.
- Strong advocacy, negotiation and client relationship skills.
- Commercial awareness and a proactive approach to business development.
- Ability to work independently while contributing positively to a team environment.
- Membership of Resolution.
- Family Law Accreditation or equivalent specialist recognition.
- Established professional network and referrer relationships.
- Experience supervising junior lawyers and support staff.
Cartwright King is a successful national law firm with offices across the country. We are a people-focused business where our staff and clients come first. We pride ourselves on being a progressive, forward-thinking employer offering the flexibility and opportunity to progress your career. We provide high-quality legal advice and services in a number of specialist disciplines, including: Criminal Defence, Financial Fraud & Serious Crime, Regulatory Law, Family Law, Child Care, and Immigration. Exemplary customer service coupled with legal expertise is at the core of everything that we do. Our aim is to provide an efficient and prompt service for clients through recruitment of employees who are both approachable and respectful of their client’s needs. At CK we encourage all our staff to further their personal training and development.
You can apply for this position by sending your CV and covering letter to [email protected]
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