Family Lawyer/Legal Executive and Mediator

Fullers Family Law; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job description

Family Lawyer/Legal Executive and Mediator

Are you an experienced family lawyer and an accredited family mediator with proven success in reaching an amicable resolution, who is looking for a new and exciting opportunity?

Would you like to work with an exciting, progressive family law firm that collaborates with you in your career development – whilst protecting your work-life balance?

Are you looking for an exciting autonomous opportunity where you will be encouraged to tailor and choreograph to meet your client’s objectives – addressing and resolving all their concerns in a mutually beneficial way?

Are you looking for a firm that has excellent client feedback, online reviews, Lexcel accreditation, and a silver award with Investors in People? We provide quality IT systems and flexible working focusing on work-life balance, whilst maintaining an excellent reputation as we deliver positive life-changing results for our clients by meeting their expectations.

Are you looking for flexible hybrid working?

Due to rapid growth and success in our Together We Part service, we now have a fantastic opportunity to expand our team.

Who Are We?

We are a fast-growing family law firm. We are innovative, looking to the future and investing in our staff, technology, education, training, and above all the firm’s work-life balance. We encourage individual growth and improvement by providing bespoke training – working in partnership with you to meet all our common objectives. We will support and encourage you to reach your developmental goals, recognising and rewarding your achievements.

We celebrate our diversity as it enriches our workplace and enables us to connect and communicate with everyone.

We specialise in family law so understand the demands of your profession and required expertise, so we know how to help you to improve your strengths and can support you as you develop and learn with a team of like-minded professionals.

We believe investing in our people is essential for personal and professional success. We are proud to hold the silver award with Investors in People, which sets a standard that speaks for itself - every day we continue to work towards achieving Platinum.

Why Join Fullers?

Joining Fullers means receiving a competitive salary, plus a substantial, achievable yearly bonus and the opportunity to work with a talented team. Additionally, we have a quarterly bonus which is shared with everyone.

We provide first-class in-house training as well as access to extensive external resources so that whatever your experience, you have a great opportunity to learn and develop.

Your wellbeing is our success, and so we focus on you by providing support, rewards, and recognition, supporting you to succeed and achieve a great work-life balance.

At Fullers, we trust in you as a professional to work effectively, whether that means working in one of our offices with your colleagues, from home, or working around personal circumstances and lifestyle choices.

Ideally, the right candidate will:

• Have extensive private family law/mediation experience.
• Have commercial awareness and understanding of the legal market.
• Have a friendly welcoming demeanour.
• Have good attention to detail and accuracy to address all concerns with your team and clients.
• Have excellent communication both in writing and verbally, so you can connect and communicate at all levels within the Firm and with our clients.
• Have a strong sense of professional responsibility and accountability.
• Have strong IT skills including Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel and Word and the ability to work in a paperless environment.
• Have a great sense of humour and enjoy working in family law.
• Be well organised and skilled at prioritising tasks.
• Be resilient when faced with setbacks and be solution-led.
• Be able to deal with changes effectively.
• Be able to uphold the firm’s reputation by providing a first-class service.
• Be empathic and understanding.
• Be efficient in working methodically and have good organisational skills to prioritise tasks.
• Be resilient and committed, remaining composed, reassuring, and empowering under pressure.
• Be self-motivated with a strong work ethic and have the inspiration to achieve.

Looking to apply?

If you want to find out more, Click Here.

We understand that you may feel more comfortable with an initial confidential discussion. If you wish to arrange such a meeting, please call Kirsty Sayers on 01234 912185.

We believe in being responsive and so we review every application, always being honest and transparent from the start to ensure a great alignment between you and Fullers.

Closing Date: 31/01/2025