Family Law Executive
- Job type: Part-time Maternity cover - 12 months
- Salary: TBC
- Seniority: Minimum 2 years experience
- Department: Family
- Office: Hertford
Are you looking to advance your legal career whilst enjoying a healthy work/life balance? Do you want to join a firm that is as interested in your career progression as you are? Are you searching for a fulfilling role where what you get out is considered just as important as what you put in? And where the only ceiling is your ambition?
Then Attwaters Solicitors could be the firm for you. Come and find out what makes us one of the Sunday Times Best Places to work in 2024, 2025 (Top 10 for medium organisations in the UK) and 2026
With five offices spanning Hertfordshire, Essex and London, Attwaters Solicitors is a respected regional law firm with origins dating back well over a century. Our vision is to be the ‘go to’ private wealth legal practice in our region, through our commitment to excellent client care, integrity, teamwork, innovation, quality and respect.
In order to achieve our vision, we need people who are committed to excellence. We are experts at what we do and we’re looking for people with the ambition, dedication and work ethic required to become leaders in their field.
But we also know that our people have a right to expect excellence from us. That’s why we are dedicated to providing our staff with a nurturing environment, a structured career path that offers clear opportunities for progression, and all the support they need to thrive.
The role:
We are looking for a Part-time Family Law Executive to provide cost-effective administrative and secretarial support to the Partners and other solicitors in the Family department. This is a 12 month maternity cover - Part-time 17.5 - 20 hours a week.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Carry out administrative and secretarial tasks speedily, efficiently and accurately (whilst consulting with partners and fee earners to properly prioritise tasked roles).
- Handle new enquiries (including updating spreadsheets and conflict checks)
- Fee Earner diary management
- Accounts work including assisting fee earners with billing, raising invoices, and client account management
- Payment of disbursements and other costs
- Preparing cost update letters
- Filing documents with the HMCTS Family Court via the portal
- Typing duties inclusive of briefs to counsel and collation of relevant documents to prepare court bundles and exhibits
- Preparing court documentation such as divorce petitions, c100, form E, form H with fee earner assistance.
- Requesting medical records
- Updating bundles
- Assisting with audio dictation
- At all times to exercise high standards of client care in a professional and pleasant manner.
- Ensuring the confidentiality and security of all of the firm's and client documentation and information.
- Complying with the Solicitors Accounts Rules and the Rules on the Professional Conduct of Solicitors
- Maintaining clear and precise communications with other personnel in the firm
- Ensuring good working relationships with external institutions and organisations
- Taking responsibility for and attend to self-development.
- Liaising with Head of Department and other partners, to be active in promoting the services of the firm and its image and ethos (including the advancement of the team’s social media efforts).
In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed the jobholder is required to perform such other duties from time to time. Such other duties must be reasonable in relation to the jobholders’ skills, abilities, and status. Travel to other offices may be required from time to time.
What we expect from you:
- You’re dedicated to providing excellent client service in line with our Service Pledge.
- You’re somebody who takes pride in their work and of whom we can be proud.
- You’re interested in promoting the firm’s good name both internally and externally.
- You’re a team player who will always go the extra mile.
- You have a positive attitude and always look to lift spirits, not lower them.
- You show good judgement and maturity.
- You’re risk-aware – you know what you don’t know.
- You’re a hard worker with a ‘can-do’ attitude.
What you can expect from us:
- A structured career path that provides all the information you need to develop and progress.
- A supportive and nurturing working environment with monthly one-to-ones, department meetings and a six-monthly appraisal scheme.
- Flexible and hybrid working.
- Firm-wide and fee-earner bonus schemes.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per year, rising by one day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
- Automatic enrolment to our contributory corporate pension scheme (salary sacrifice).
- Automatic enrolment to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps staff members experiencing personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and wellbeing.
- Enrolment to our Healthcare Cash Plan after the probationary period. Cover includes dependant children and may be extended to partners or spouses at the employee’s expense.
- Access to Mintago, a comprehensive employee financial wellbeing platform.
- Each office has its own designated Social and Wellbeing champion, who is there to help promote good mental and physical health with a range of initiatives including social walks, book clubs, charitable activities and out-of-hours get-togethers and events.
- Annual staff events including summer and Christmas events, quarterly office lunches and our annual online Staff Quiz!
Work Location: In person
