Family Solicitor (Legal Aid)
- Employer
- Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
- Location
- Ashford
- Salary
- £45000 - £50000 per annum
- Closing date
- 5 Feb 2021
- Reference
- J60461
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- Practice area
- Family
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years+
- Position
- Legal executive, Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
An established high street law firm in Ashford, Kent are looking for an experienced Family Solicitor or Legal Executive (4yrs+ PQE) ideally with Children's Panel Membership or Resolution to join their growing family law team.
Your role will be to manage a varied caseload of publicly funded family matters including childcare (acting for parents), non-molestation orders and domestic violence. In addition, there may be some exposure to private divorce cases. You'll provide legal advice to clients on all relevant matters and undertake your own advocacy.
You must be a Family Lawyer/Care Solicitor with proven experience in handling a legal aid caseload, likely 4yrs+ PQE Family Solicitor, Legal Executive (FCILEx) or Paralegal. Ideally, you'll be a member of the Family Law Chidren's Panel or Resolution although this is not essential. LAA Supervisor status would be highly advantageous.
As this role will require you to attend several offices, a car driver is essential.
On offer is a competitive salary, up to c£50,000 plus benefits.
Apply now to be considered for this Family Solicitor/Childcare Solicitor career opportunity with an established and growing law firm in Ashford, Kent
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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