Family Solicitor

Company: Davisons Law
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

About Davisons Law

Davisons Law is a leading law firm with a strong presence in Family Law. The firm is known for its client-focused approach, high-quality legal services, and investment in our Team’s personal and career development. This is an excellent opportunity for a Family Solicitor who is passionate about legally supporting Clients with a wide range of Family matters.

What you’ll do

When you join the team with Davisons Law as an experienced Family Solicitor, you will provide accurate family law advice to clients and handle matters from initial instruction through to completion unsupervised.You will manage your own case load with all aspects of family law including divorce, financial remedy, separation, co-habitation, pre and post nuptial agreements, domestic violence, and children law. You will be the first point of contact for enquiries, and you will either handle these or allocate them. This is a new role at this office therefore you will not take over an existing case load.

Ideally you will be a fully qualified experienced solicitor with at least 3 years PQE, although other qualifications (i.e., CILEX and CLC) will be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Have a proven track record of conducting proceedings from commencement to conclusion.
  • Be passionate about developing and maintaining strong professional working relationships with clients, and referrers.
  • Support the development of the Family Law Department and the Company in growing its client base by the delivery of an excellent service, your local connections and through supporting networking events.
  • Advocacy experience
  • Manage own work allocation must have proven track record as a Family Law Fee Earner
  • Process cases in a timely and cost-effective manner.
  • Strong organisation skillset, IT literate and experience of using case management systems.
  • Be commercially driven and astute, understanding the importance of business targets and their impact to the practice, generating a fee income in line with agreed targets.
  • To have excellent administrative, planning, organisation and time management skills.
  • Experience of handling client enquiries both face to face, remotely and by telephone.
  • Have a firm and functional knowledge within family law, continuously updating your legal knowledge and staying informed about relevant legal developments.

What’s in it for you:

Working with Davisons Law as a Family Solicitor is more than just a job. We give all our employees the opportunity to develop and shape their futures with us.Employees at Davisons Law can take control of their own career by following our Leadership or Technical career path.

We offer a competitive salary plus access to a range of excellent benefits, including:

  • Professional Subscriptions paid.
  • Additional holiday days during our Christmas shutdown so that you can enjoy time with your friends and family.
  • Referral rewards
  • Option to buy or sell 3 days of your annual leave.
  • Paycare Health Cash Scheme
  • Discounted legal fees.
  • Your birthday off in addition to your annual leave entitlement
  • Birthday gift voucher

You will also be able to join your colleagues if you wish, at Davisons social events.

  • Dress down & treat day on the last Friday of each month.
  • Annual Christmas company celebration
  • Localised office events

Join Davisons Law as a Family Solicitor and be part of a law firm that values you and provides opportunities to act with purpose and thrive.

Posted: May 3rd, 2025