Family Law Associate Director/Team Lead

Are you a senior family expert with experience in leading a busy, family law team 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 while protecting your work-life balance? Are you looking to use your supervision skills to develop your own team and be accountable for achieving high standards and setting achievable stretch targets to develop your people within your team? Are you looking for an exciting autonomous opportunity where you will be encouraged to tailor and choreograph cases with your team to meet your client’s objectives – addressing and resolving all their concerns? Are you looking for an opportunity to expand you and your team skills focusing on problem solving, legal analysis, strategic and tactical planning, and negotiating techniques by empowering and collaborating to achieve professional success? 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 while maintaining an excellent reputation, delivering positive life-changing results for our clients by meeting their expectations. Are you looking for flexible hybrid working? 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 we understand the demands of your profession and required expertise, and we know how to help you improve your strengths by supporting 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 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 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 8 years plus PQE. Have experience in managing a high-performing team. Have extensive private family law experience. Have commercial awareness and understanding of the legal market. Have a friendly welcoming demeanour. Have existing litigation experience in matrimonial finance cases and/or private child law cases. 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 able to have performance/coaching conversations that support and add value. Be resilient when faced with setbacks and empower your team to 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. 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: 06 January 2025

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