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Full Time Family Lawyer

Family First Solicitors Limited is an innovative family law firm committed to providing affordable legal advice to clients wherever they are. We specialise in offering family law services through accessible means, including fixed fees, unbundled services, and a flexible approach, ensuring support is within financial reach for as many people as possible. Recognised by our peers as good people ( no deliberate Friday 5 o’clock urgent emails thanks) , we are proud to deliver sharp, client-focused advice in a relaxed and supportive environment. Our mission is to bridge the gap in legal assistance created by economic headwinds of the last ten years, enabling more individuals to address their family law needs.

 

Role Description

This is a full-time hybrid role for a Senior Family Solicitor or CILEX Litigator. Based in Oxford, Competitive salary £40,000 – £50,000 plus bonus potential up to a 50% share of super profit.

 

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Family Law, including experience handling complex cases such as divorce, child arrangements, and financial settlements.
• Knowledge and experience in advocacy beneficial.
• Excellent client care skills, with the ability to manage sensitive matters empathetically and professionally.
• Ability to work autonomously, as well as collaboratively within a hybrid work setting.
• Qualified solicitor or a member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) qualified to litigate or nearly there (stupid Mazurs).
• An ADR qualification would be awesome but not required.
• Strong organisational, research, and communication skills
• Commercially aware

 

About us

We specialise in family law and particularly in difficult or interesting cases. Our work is diverse and covers the whole gamut of problems faced by the families of today.

We regularly advise on Children Act cases that involve complex issues, such as alienation or coercive control. Our financial work has a range from modest value assets (which can be the most challenging cases) to the families with up to many millions of pounds in assets.

We are committed to offering affordable law. We are transitioning to unbundled services and fixed fees only and we are market leaders in this method of helping clients to afford legal advice. Full training will be provided if this is new to you.

We are operating a remote practice. You can be anywhere in the country although we would expect you to attend our Oxford office occasionally for team building purposes or training. Not all our staff work from Oxfordshire, so your geography is not an issue for us.

We provide training to improve your skills and ensure you have access to the latest practitioner assistance such as Lexis Nexis PSL, MBL learning and case management with AI assistance built in.

We offer a healthy respect for your work/life balance, a competitive salary and a benefits package based on loyalty and performance. If you needed flexibility in your hours that is something we could discuss with you but this is a full time role.

About You

You will probably be between 3 ( and a lot of pre qualification) to 10 years PQE.

You can be a Solicitor or a Legal Executive. You will be intellectually curious and previously pushed yourself so you can learn things to help a client.

Having an awareness/interest about domestic abuse is advantageous. We are also keen to hear from you if you do some of your own advocacy or have done in the past.

You will enjoy having the autonomy that goes hand in hand with running a caseload and making the judgement calls necessary for successful outcomes for clients. You will be compassionate, motivated and responsible.

Your Career

The firm is mindful that developing talent from inside the organisation is the way to make sure all those at Family First stay engaged and in love with their work.

With 20% of family lawyers considering leaving the field, we strongly believe that motivation is not just about money (although that helps) but an ability to be the best you can be, with a firm that doesn’t sweep stress and wellbeing issues under the carpet.

If you are thinking of developing an ADR practice, a career in the judiciary, obtaining higher rights, or eventually you see yourself as a business owner, then we should talk.