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Family Solicitors 3+ PQE and support – Walker Family Law, Bristol, Exeter, Taunton.

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 Walker Family Law (formerly Ian Walker Family Law and Mediation Solicitors) is a Legal 500 and Chambers Directory ranked, progressive, niche, South-West family law practice. Our team now consists of 20+ family lawyers. Recent awards for the team/team members, include, Resolution Regional Champion 2023, Law Society Recognising Excellence 2021.

Our founder, Ian Walker, is a director and an elected member of the National Committee of Resolution. Our team includes members of Resolution’s national specialist committees concerning: Children, Standards, Cohabitation and Dispute Resolution. We were amongst the first teams nationally to train in and to offer Resolution Together. We are committed to practice in accordance with the Resolution Code and for team members to participate in the wider world of family law on a local and national level.

We have fantastic opportunities for ambitious family lawyers and support team members with strong relevant experience and commerciality, and who will help us to develop our team further.

The Opportunities

  • Child Law Specialist Solicitor 3+ PQE to join our Somerset team which is centred on our Taunton office. You will ideally already be a member of the Law Society Children Panel. Salary; Competitive and depending on experience.

 

  • Children Panel Members – we are always happy to hear from solicitors who are children panel members and who are wanting to make a change. Panel members can be based at different locations including Exeter, Taunton, Bristol. Competitive salaries.

 

  • Divorce Specialist Solicitors 3+ PQE to join our Exeter team and our Somerset team which is centred on our Taunton office. You will ideally have already achieved accreditation with Resolution or the Law Society, and have trained in out of court resolution, (any of; Mediation, Collaborative Law, Resolution Together), but if not, you will aspire to become accredited and enhancing your skills. Salary Competitive and depending on experience.

 

  • Divorce Specialist Solicitor 7+ PQE to help drive the development of our Bristol You will ideally be established in Bristol, have a following and already achieved accreditation with Resolution or the Law Society, and have trained in out of court resolution, (any of; Mediation, Collaborative Law, Resolution Together), but if not, you will aspire to become accredited and enhancing your skills. Salary Competitive and depending on experience.

 

  • A pre-existing team we will welcome contact from pre-existing teams of family lawyers who are looking for a new home in a specialist family law practice. (South-West)

 

  •  Support team members Our lawyers are fantastic, but they are only able to be their very best with good support working alongside them. We are therefore very happy to receive applications from Paralegals, Legal Secretaries, Legal Assistants with good family Law experience. Good packages and flexible working are available depending upon location and experience.

Why choose us.

We are a progressive and dynamic family Law practice ranked in both Legal 500 and Chambers Directory. All of our focus is on improving our family law services and improving our legal teams and their members. In the last 12 months we have been joined by outstanding children lawyers Emma Wildblood and Daniela Nickols. We have also implemented a business reorganisation in line with best business practice. In the next 12 months we are working towards improving our career pathways including the introduction of apprenticeship schemes for lawyers and nonlawyers and improving ways of working to enable us to meet the needs of our clients.

We offer.

  • Competitive salaries.
  • Excellent holidays.
  • Career pathways with good opportunities for promotion and leadership.
  • Blended working.
  • A learning culture.

 

We strive to provide an environment where our lawyers are supported and encouraged to be the best family lawyers they can possibly be.

  • We are committed to all of our fee earners being members of Resolution and engaging in the wider family law community.
  • We are highly committed to the values of Resolution and among the first law firms nationally to embrace Resolution Together: one lawyer for both clients.
  • We encourage all our lawyers to gain accreditation and all our divorce lawyers to qualify in an out of court resolution process. (For mediation, we can also provide a pathway to Family Mediation Council accreditation)
  • We have a commitment to training and development which goes above and beyond that which we have experienced in other practices.
  • All our resources and investment are directed at improving/assisting our family law teams.
  • We are committed to offering a legally aided service.
  • We have recently implemented an internal reorganisation based on best business practice and aimed at delivering a less hierarchical structure which will better enable us to develop new ways of working and services and which will provide further leadership opportunities and/or improve the profiles of our leading family lawyers. Our new structure also allows us to better assimilate teams of family lawyers and to grow our firm into new areas both geographically and incorporate additional highly specialist areas of family law.

 

Apply in confidence to recruitment@walkerfamilylaw.co.uk  We are also happy to have an initial chat. Call or text Ian on 07500806664

 

Direct applicants are preferred