Legal Assistant - Family Department

• Start date
  17 April, 2025
• Contract type
  Permanent
• Role type
  Support
• Hours
  34.5 per week
• Salary
  Dependent on experience

This position is based at Lawson West Solicitors Leicester, 4 Dominus Way, Meridian Business Park, Leicester, LE19 1RP.

Lawson West is an ambitious and well-established law firm committed to providing a very high quality service across a wide range of practice areas.

We are looking for enthusiastic and proactive Legal Assistant to join our highly experienced Family law department. Excellent organisation, administrative skills and a team player attitude are essential in order to provide consistent support to the Family team and enable them to provide the highest quality of service to our clients. In return you get to be a part of a really friendly and supportive team that is determined to achieve great things and belong to a firm that rewards hard work, loyalty while recognising the need for work life balance and flexibility.

Please select the links to view the full Job Description and Person Specification

OUR CORE VALUES

Our core values are more than just words on a page. We live and breathe them in our interactions with our clients and with our colleagues, they are the backbone of our culture here at Lawson-West and it is vitally important to us that our new recruits also hold these values to be important to them:

• Welcoming
• Confident
• Supportive
• Knowledgeable
• Dependable

REWARDS

In addition to getting to be part of a friendly, supportive and ambitious firm that rewards hard work, loyalty and recognises the need for work life balance and flexibility, we also offer the following benefits:

• Salary at or above market rate reviewed annually
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, Christmas closure days and loyalty holidays
• Buy and Sell Salary Sacrifice Holiday Scheme
• Electric Car Leasing Salary Sacrifice Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Day off for your Birthday
• Long Service Awards – additional Annual Leave and 10 Year Club Membership
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoptive Leave
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Flexible Working / Hybrid Working
• Employee Assistance Programme with access to virtual doctors’ appointments
• Company Sick Pay
• Complimentary Will
• CSR – annual paid day’s leave to volunteer for a charity
• Employee discounts on our legal services
• Employee Introduction Bonus scheme
• Funding of professional subscriptions and training
• Financial Education
• Enhanced Eye Care

 

HOW TO APPLY

Please click on the link to be taken through our application process:

https://hr.breathehr.com/v/legal-assistant-family-department-40572

Recruitment Agencies: Please note Lawson-West has a preferred supplier list in place for recruitment of fee earners only. Support staff are recruited in house. Should Lawson-West Solicitors receive a speculative CV from recruitment agencies to any of its email accounts, where terms of business have not been signed, we will not consider this to form any type of contract Lawson-West Solicitors between and the agency. We reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question.