Careers

FAMILY SOLICITOR

About the job

To work within our Family Department

Bradford with some attendance required at our Keighley office with hybrid working. 

Full time Monday to Friday.

We have an opportunity for a Family Lawyer to join our team.

Our Firm

We are a niche solicitors practice with offices in Bradford and Keighley.  We provide expert legal advice to families and individuals.  We cover a range of family services including child abduction, cohabitation/prenups, divorce and financial settlements, domestic violence, children’s issues, forced marriages and social services.

Our Opportunity

In this role you will be responsible for building your own case load and advising clients about all aspects of the law relating to family law dealing with both private and legally aided clients.  We are looking for someone who is interested in practicing in a wide range of private law family issues. You will have full use of a secretarial support team.  You will manage your own case files using our case management system.  You will have ongoing training and development opportunities

You

You will ideally have a minimum of 2 years’ experience upwards of family law casework.  You will be organised and approach tasks with common sense, dealing with challenging situations in a calm but effective manner.  We expect you to collaborate with colleagues to build relationships and case work.

What you need to know

  • We can consider flexible working arrangements
  • We offer 24 days holiday increasing to 30 after 6 years’ service (1 extra day per year of service)
  • Auto enrolment pension scheme – 5% employee and 3% employer
  • Hybrid working supported by our sophisticated case management system, digital dictation to include speech recognition, and VOIP telephone system.  A laptop will be provided to you.
  • Generous target-based bonus scheme
  • Paid healthcare cash plan

If you are interested in finding out more about our current vacancies, contact Dee Priestley, Practice Manager (deep@williscroft.co.uk) with a covering letter and CV.  To find out more about our firm please visit www.williscroft.co.uk.