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Family Care Solicitor

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  • Hybrid working
  • Fantastic career development – track record of promoting from within
  • Excellent employee retention – current head of team been with firm for 10 years
  • Gain exposure to high-quality childcare matters

A regional law firm is looking for a family solicitor to join its well-established care team and enjoy a long, successful career all the way up to partnership level.

The right candidate will have some family law experience, but the firm is happy to give you plenty of training and development to become a specialist care lawyer. For example, you could be newly qualified and just embarking on your career or have several years of care law experience.

The firm has the largest care team in the area and has an excellent reputation, meaning most of its work is inbound. This is a great learning experience for any family lawyer, as you’ll have access to some of the most experienced care lawyers to work with on cases directly.

You’ll enjoy an unrivalled career trajectory here, the scope of which could lead all the way up to partnership and, one day, head of department.

People love to work here – many partners started out as trainees here and have never looked back.

The team currently have four solicitors and six support team members, so you’ll get plenty of secretarial and administrative support on your caseload, providing a great work/life balance.

Depending on experience, you’ll either support with or handle a caseload of care work including care proceedings, child arrangements and parental responsibilities.

How to apply for this role

If this sounds like the job for you, you can apply via this website by clicking ‘Apply’.

Alternatively, to learn more about this opportunity or to register your interest, contact Patrick Hackett at Realm Recruit.

Patrick is a Consultant at Realm and specialises in recruiting family solicitors across the West Midlands. He works with family departments at firms of all shapes and sizes in Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Shrewsbury, and across the West Midlands. If you are looking for a new position, Patrick is ready to help you make a move.

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Key details

Salary

£32,000 - £38,000

Location

  • Warwickshire

Role type

  • Hybrid working

Contract type

  • Permanent

Practice area

Family

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