Senior Associate Solicitor - Tees Law : Job Details

We are seeking a Senior Associate Solicitor within our Private Client department in our Cambridge office.

About us

Tees Law is a Top 200 UK law firm with 400 staff across 6 offices. We provide expert legal services and independent financial advice to individuals, businesses, professional partnerships, charities, national corporations, and institutions. Founded in 1913, we have grown from a traditional family firm with strong roots. Our vision is to be the firm of choice for exceptional service, priding ourselves on being easy to talk to, open, honest, and empathetic. We offer straightforward, long-term solutions for a better future, drawing on our years of experience to anticipate customer needs and share insights. At Tees, we aim to create a better future for our clients, your career, and your family.

The Department

At Tees we are renowned for our specialist private client team. The team advise on the preparation of wills, wealth protection and inheritance tax planning, the administration of complex estates, inheritance, and trust services and on all elderly client matters. Our team provides the whole range of complementary private client services to individuals, with high-quality advice in family matters, litigation, property, conveyancing, and regulatory areas.

The Role

This role is a hybrid role, with 3 days a week in Cambridge and 2 days working from home. We are also open to part time working.

Accountable for managing a complex mixed caseload of client matters without supervision. Providing clients with high quality legal advice whilst proactively managing client relationships. This will include supporting more complex work which cannot be serviced from other offices due to various reasons including experience and capacity.

Responsibilities

• Managing the delivery of legal services in a manner which is both cost-efficient to the client and the firm.
• Achieving the firm’s fee targets and assisting and enabling others in the team to do so by mentoring and developing junior members of the team.
• Set and deliver objectives personally and through the team. Set team objectives in conjunction with team leader, monitor performance and progress and provide professional guidance to team members as appropriate.
• Lead, manage and motivate staff. Ensure team members have an understanding of goals related to their own objectives. Provide regular feedback at one to one performance meetings and appraisals.
• Accountable for ensuring efficient and timely credit management processes are adhered to. Manage own time and that of the team to effectively achieve targets.

Benefits

• Attractive salary and discretionary payments.
• Birthday holiday and 25 days annual leave.
• Compassionate leave and employee assistance program.
• Contributory pension and discounted services.
• Life assurance, and health insurance.
• Cycle to work scheme, eye care, and discount platform.
• Social events and professional development opportunities.
• Volunteer day leave and involvement in firm initiatives.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Tees, diversity and inclusion are central to our vision. We embrace diversity in all forms and believe it fosters collaboration, empathy, and innovation. Our commitment to diversity enhances problem-solving and decision-making, allowing us to better serve our clients.

If you are ambitious, driven, and want to work with a firm focused on building brighter futures, and in a successful growing team with an enviable reputation, we would love to hear from you.