Head of Family
- Employer
- Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
- Location
- England, Cheshire, Chester
- Salary
- £35000 - £45000 per annum + Good Package
- Closing date
- 29 Jan 2019
- Reference
- Eh96870
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- Practice area
- Family, Family mediation
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years+
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
An experienced Family solicitor is required to take up the position as "Head of Family" for a medium sized commercial firm based in Chester. You will be heading up a team of 3 fee earners, with secretarial support available for yourself and all fee earners. The department and client base is already established with a strong flow of private work from the surrounding areas.
The firm are very well known within the surrounding areas and have developed a strong client base for private family matters. Very high standards of client care are adhered to, resulting in a number of referrals and recommendations.
The family department has 3 fee earners and 2 secretaries - this role is on the pathway to partnership if that is of interest, ideally the firm are hoping to reinstate a Family partner to the firm. Majority of the cases are divorce, financial matters and private children matters with a small amount of legal aid that is dealt with by another fee earner.
This role would suit someone who is confident in their technical and management abilities, who wants to head up an already established department and develop the department further.
Please contact Elle Heeley, Recruitment Consultant, to discuss this role in more detail or apply through the vacancy for immediate consideration.
Douglas Scott are legal recruitment experts and the UK's leading law firms trust us with their legal vacancies. You can therefore apply for our North West Commercial legal jobs with confidence. We are a regulated recruitment consultancy and will discuss this role and seek your approval before submitting an application directly to the decision maker.
Please see our website, www.douglas-scott.co.uk, for more North West Commercial legal jobs.
Company
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are multi-award winning legal recruitment experts.
Our business – put simply – is to remove the pain points candidates may otherwise experience on their journeys.
Sure, we act for legal professionals of all levels making lateral moves, taking steps up the ladder or looking for contract legal opportunities.
And yes we can boast a network of connections that spans nationwide private practice, the UK’s in house legal departments and now the Middle East, Asia and the Far East.
But we are the only REC and APSCO affiliated legal recruitment specialist with an ISO9001 accredited quality management system and the Investors In People Gold Standard award.
And by externally validating our day to day activities in the wider business community we have been able to place customer experience at the heart of our business proposition.
Which means people like dealing with our team – a very experienced, settled and happy bunch they epitomise the Douglas Scott brand personality and will demonstrate a genuine interest in you and your career.
- Website
- http://www.douglas-scott.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0161 233 6360
- Location
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Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB
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