Description

ROLE: Child Lawyer

LOCATION: Nottingham

SALARY: competitive, based on experience

HOURS: 09:00-17:15 Monday- Friday

BENEFITS:
• 38 days’ inclusive of bank and other public holidays
• 3% employer pension contribution on whole salary
• Life Assurance scheme at 3x annual salary
• Continuous training and development opportunities for those seeking progression within the firm
• Generous employee sickness allowance
• Client and employee referral schemes (up to £2000)
• 25% discount on some legal services
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP/Cash Plan) offering cashback towards your healthcare bills, 24/7 video and telephone GP appointments and discounted memberships at over 3,000 gyms, studios, and health clubs across the UK
• Social committee and events

ROLE:

Sills & Betteridge Solicitors is known for its dedication to excellence in legal services. You will play a crucial role in representing our clients in a wide range of family issues, including children and domestic abuse cases. This position is suited to a confident professional with first class interpersonal and motivational skills and the passion to help drive the Firm forwards. The successful candidate will manage their own caseload with supervision and support when required.

Your typical day-to-day duties may include:
• managing and progressing own caseload in an efficient and effective manner
• assisting with the development of the department in the designated area
• achieving both individual and team financial targets, as agreed with the Department Head
• ensuring that all business opportunities are dealt with professionally and promptly

ABOUT YOU:

The ideal candidate will:
• be a qualified Lawyer (NQ - 5 years’ PQE)
• be able to undertake own Advocacy (as far as possible)
• have knowledge and experience of Legal Aid
• have a positive and proactive approach to both, clients, and staff
• be confident, passionate and possess first class communication skills

ABOUT US:

Here at Sills, we pride ourselves on not treating our clients or our staff as a number. Despite our size we still have a strong sense of community throughout the firm and across departments. We are one of the leading firms of solicitors in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Nottingham, and Northampton providing a full range of legal services to individuals and businesses. With offices in 15 locations we require a variety of different people with a wide range of skill sets and backgrounds to add value our organisation and help us provide our award-winning services to our valued clients. We fully embrace diverse characteristics, experiences, and outlooks in the workplace and in the communities in which we practice.

You will be working alongside some of the region’s best lawyers, who combine technical knowledge of the law with first class client service. The Family Department has recently won the prestigious and fiercely competitive Children Law Team of the Year national award at the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards. In addition, the Legal 500 (The World’s Leading Legal Directory) ranks Sills & Betteridge LLP as a Leading Firm and recognises many of our team in tiers one, two and three- our family team achieving the highest accolade of Top Tier Status- with several members of the firm as Leading Individuals, Recommended Lawyers, and Next General Partners. We have also been recognised by various organisations for our commitment to creating a great place to work- whether its our outstanding LEXCEL audits, our nominations for being an outstanding training contract provider by lawcareers.net, our award for promoting access to the legal profession by CILEX or our ‘One to Watch’ standing with the Top 200 Companies, UK.