Responsibilities and duties:

• To participate and contribute to the Family team to ensure an effective working environment, supporting other Associates and Partners on more complex matters as appropriate
• Attend the internal training programme and other relevant technical training to ensure that skills and knowledge remain up-to-date.
• Maintain awareness of the relevant legal markets specifically relating to Family work.
• To promote the vision and culture of the Firm.
• Work as part of the Family team dealing with, but not limited to national and international matters: divorce; financial disputes; matrimonial arbitration/mediation; pre-nuptial agreements; child arrangement agreements; child abduction etc.
• Any other legal work, as requested by the senior fee-earners in the group.
• To be responsible for ensuring achievement of own key financial targets, including fees, contribution and payment of debts and disbursements.
• Maintaining accurate data on case manager and the firm’s intranet.
• To monitor own performance in relation to the number of live files, file closures, file openings, billing, time recording and to take appropriate action to ensure targets are met.
• Scope all matters appropriately, including use of budget templates, delivering work on time and on budget and understand the necessity of streamlining and efficiency in delivering a cost effective service to clients on all matters.
• To assist with marketing and business development initiatives such as writing for e-newsletters and/or attending seminars.

If this is of interest, please do not hesitate to contact Vaida Cesnaite on 0117 3705 1760, at vaida@austenlloyd.co.uk, reference VC 51098