Job Role:     Family Lawyer – Team Leader

Experience: 5+ years’ experience in Family Law (essential).

                     Experience in handling financial settlement cases (essential).

                     Leadership/management experience (advantageous).  

Type:           Permanent, Fulltime

Hours:          9.00am-5.00pm, at least 3 days office based

Salary:         Up to £55,000 depending on experience + leadership supplement.                 

Location:     Maghull Office (37-39 Liverpool Road North, Maghull L31 2HB)         

To Apply:     Contact Sarah Boynton, Head of HR. 

E-mail: sarahboynton@maxweb.co.uk or T: 01704 872156

Maxwell Hodge has a supportive and open culture, with Team, Support, Guidance, Resilience and Learning at the heart of everything we do. We prioritise employee wellbeing and foster an environment where people feel valued, included, and happy. We believe people thrive when they feel supported, guided, and inspired and by joining Maxwell Hodge, you will join a team that lifts and celebrates each other and encourages learning. Our aim is to maintain a high performing workforce to provide clients with an excellent client experience to attract clientele, maintain loyalty, and ultimately to achieve business success. If you’re looking to contribute, develop, and feel part of something meaningful, you’ll find your home with us.

We are looking for an experienced lawyer to join our Family Team. Ideally, you will be seeking a leadership position and have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Family Law including experience in handling complex financial disputes.

The Family Team undertake varied matrimonial and family law matters on a private paying basis (i.e. no legal aid). The team is based at Maghull and cover all our offices.

To succeed in the role, you will be energetic, enthusiastic, resilient, proactive, and creative to take initiative, overcome challenges, remain calm and deliver key outcomes. You will also be a critical thinker, strong decision maker, and solution-focused to provide clients with an efficient, quality, and reputable service, whilst also leading, guiding, and inspiring the team. You will work closely with other leaders, including your Director Responsible to develop the team in terms of culture, efficiency, performance, and profitability and be passionate about delivering high-quality work and achieving goals.

Skills, Qualities and Knowledge Required

  • Exceptional communication skills.
  • Strong organisational and case management skills with high attention to detail.
  • Effective time management to meet deadlines/targets, handle a range of priorities and maintain a steady workload/caseload.
  • Good understanding of the company’s marketing and client care strategies and business plans to contribute to achieving company objectives.
  • Good financial and commercial understanding to interpret revenue, profit, and expenditure, for the team as well as market trends, threats, and opportunities.
  • Relationship building to establish and maintain key relationships including developing strong ties with the local community.
  • Energy, enthusiasm, and optimism to stay motivated and motivate others.
  • Adaptability and flexibility to navigate, influence, and lead change.
  • Strong decision-maker capable of handling complex situations.
  • Commitment to ongoing learning and development.

 

Key Duties

  • Attend upon clients and others to take instructions and provide expert legal advice.
  • Meet client demands and expectations, as well as case specific demands.
  • Adhere to financial procedures including accurately recording matter related time, regularly billing clients, ensuring there are appropriate monies on client account and keeping clients up to date on incurred and future costs.
  • Handle a range of matters (e.g. divorce, separation, child arrangements) from initial instruction through to settlement, mediation, or final hearing.
  • Diarise key dates and deadlines and keep under review.
  • Schedule meetings/appointments/conferences and maintain an up-to-date diary.
  • Prepare for Court hearings and arrange representation/attend hearings.
  • Work closely with the Director Responsible on strategic planning for the Team.
  • Promote cross selling across all teams and support marketing, business development, and community engagement, encouraging team member involvement in key activities.
  • Manage team performance by conducting regular performance reviews.
  • Manage the team in everyday matters including supervision and best practice.
  • Regularly analyse team profitability against expenditure to identify trends and patterns.
  • Ensure a high standard of client service is achieved.
  • Oversee training and development for the team.
  • Collaborate with the rest of the leadership team, sharing ideas and best practice.

Salary, Holidays and Benefits

  • The salary for this role is up to £55,000 + leadership supplement per annum DOE.
  • Annual holiday entitlement is 25 days, if you are 5+ years PQE on starting with us.
  • Hybrid working (3 days office-based per week).
  • Paid sick leave, dependant’s leave, and birthday leave.
  • Employer Supported Volunteering (2 working days each year).
  • Health benefit with Medicash, which new starters can join after 6 months’ service.
  • Staff discount on Wills & LPAs and Residential Conveyancing, eligible after 6 months.
  • Staff wellbeing and social events.
  • Different opportunities for reward and recognition including a Bonus Policy, Employee Referral Programme, Employee Recognition, and a Client Care Quarterly Reward.
  • Formal performance review process, including a probation review meeting at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months.
  • Annual salary and bonus review in June of each year.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We are committed to ensuring our working practices and job roles are inclusive to meet a wide variety of needs. Therefore, should you require any reasonable adjustments or have access requirements, please make us aware when applying for the position so that we can arrange a suitable interview. Successful candidates will be asked about reasonable adjustments for their employment at Maxwell Hodge when they are formally offered the position, so that we can ensure the role meets their requirements.