Description:
The Richmond family team has one partner, one associate and one paralegal. We are looking for a Senior Associate, who will develop and manage a caseload of high-value and complex family matters, whilst assisting the partner and playing a vital role in the supervision and continued growth of the team based in Richmond. We promote a healthy work life balance which allows our people to manage their various responsibilities in a way that is sustainable for the long term. This leads to better outcomes for our clients as well as a great place to work.
Our Family Team, is a leading team in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. We provide a supportive and collaborative service, believing that our services should be focused on achieving the right outcome. Whilst the preferred candidate will demonstrate excellent previous experience in the field of family law, they’ll also gain exposure to some of the innovations we have made to deliver great outcomes for our Clients. Here’s some more information on our team:
- We are a large, experienced team handling HNW/complex work with offices in London, Richmond, Woking, Guildford, Southampton and Lymington which makes us ideally placed to act for clients in the HNW hubs of London and the Home Counties.
- Finance: We regularly deal with HNW/complex financial remedy both in and out of the Court system. Our financial remedy matters are frequently complex, and include trusts, non marital assets, business structures, pensions and inherited wealth, as well as more volatile assets such as stocks and shares. We often act for international clients and many of the cases have an international element.
- Family agreements: either pre or post-nuptial but also for cohabitants. We also where appropriate, secure “mirror” agreements in other jurisdictions.
- Non-Court Dispute Resolution: There are 4 collaboratively trained lawyers in the team and 4 mediators and we emphasise the NCDR route wherever possible.
- Accord - one couple, one lawyer, one aim: In October 2022, we launched this scheme, which enables clients who are not in conflict to instruct the same lawyer to handle their divorce / separation and related financial and children matters, greatly streamlining matters and ultimately leading to more efficient routes to agreed outcomes.
- Modern families: We often advise on cohabitation agreements, as well as dealing with cohabiting couples separating, specialising in financial remedy applications for cohabitants including Schedule 1 and TLATA. This is a niche area of family law where some firms lack expertise. We also are leaders in the area for surrogacy matters.
- We also undertake complex private children law disputes.