Senior Matrimonial Solicitor
Thorneycroft Mission Statement
We will endeavour to be kind to our Clients, our co-workers and our colleagues. We will act in a warm, friendly, professional and respectful manner at all times. We will strive for excellence through training, guidance and support internally to create a well-balanced working environment. We will aim to provide our Clients with a lifetime of legal care by providing the best legal service possible.
The new Matrimonial Solicitor will work across all offices and they will work alongside the Heads of Department in each Private Client discipline.
Qualifications/Experience
- Qualified Solicitor and/or Legal Executive
- Have excellent knowledge of all areas of Family Law and experience of providing high quality advice (at least 5 years post qualification experience)
Department Specific Requirements
- Provide the highest quality advice across a range of privately funded family law matters and disputes including divorce and financial remedy issues, children and injunction matters, surrogacy, cohabitee disputes and pre and post nuptial agreements
- Face to face contact with clients and provide accurate, prompt, realistic and relevant advice in response to clients’ enquiries whilst also managing their expectations
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients
- Being involved with marketing yourself, the department and the firm, supported by our Marketing department to win new clients and build branch awareness
- Maintaining effective time management
- Respond to clients’ urgent requirements empathetically and proactively
- Have an ability and willingness to communicate effectively with clients, colleagues and other departments within the firm
- Strong drafting and advocacy skills
- Responsible for the dynamic and profitable growth of our current Family & Matrimonial department in all offices
- Ensuring that the department is compliant with all SRA, firm policies, and any other policy or certification that is approved by the Board
- To ensure the department hit’s budget year on year
- To ensure that the department record all of their time
- Attendance at meetings with Board members to answer for the performance of the department. To cascade all Board and management information in a proactive and resolute manner as required
- Travel to all offices on a weekly basis
- Ensure that you keep fully up to date with the law and any changes.
Key Skills
- Wide ranging Family Law experience
- Proclaim skills
- To always act with integrity and in the best interest of the Firm
- Follow all policies as required
- Good command of written and spoken English
- To be able to give excellent service to clients
- Clean driving license
- Ability to multi-task
- Strong communication skills
- Business networking skills
- Personable
- Professional
- Honest
- Hard working
- Conscientious
- Accountable
- Self-motivating
- Fair
- Pro active
- Team player
- Respectful
- Organised
- Decisive
- Focused on development and improvement.
