Backhouse Solicitors Limited are looking for an ambitious qualified Litigation Solicitor or Legal Executive to join their highly reputable team based in Chelmsford. We are looking for candidates who are ideally 4+ years PQE.
About You
- You will have a good knowledge of Litigation.
- Dealing with matters on behalf of commercial and individual clients on a wide range of litigation matters to include landlord and tenant, breach of contract claims, debt recovery, insolvency and commercial litigation.
- Great client care skills
- An entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to win new clients
- A passion for networking
- A hard worker who wants to develop their legal career and progress quickly
- Always willing to learn and try new things
- Trustworthy and professional
- A team player willing to help out colleagues
About the Role
Your role will be to harness our team’s expertise to solve our clients’ legal problems with expert, commercially minded and great value advice. On a week-to-week basis this is how you will achieve this:
- Meeting potential new clients, getting a really detailed understanding of what they need and giving them the confidence to instruct Backhouse to solve their problems. Not all lawyers understand that an initial interview is a combination of a sales meeting and an information gathering meeting to turn a potential new client into an actual new client. Can you demonstrate your expertise in a confident and professional way?
- Growing the Backhouse business – working with the rest of the team to develop new opportunities and communicating our message to attract new clients. This will range from writing articles for the website and publications to attending business networking events and even speaking to a room full of people if you have the skill.
- Working with the management team to decide on the future direction of the firm and getting involved with making it happen.
It goes without saying that as a Solicitors practice, we have high professional standards to meet and we expect the highest ethical standard from all our team.
Salaries are based on how much our team members bill. We set a starting salary based on initial expectations and if these are exceeded the salary is increased. We don’t set an upper limit as we want to reward our high-flyers.
About Us:
We solve our clients’ legal problems with expert, commercially minded and great value advice. We are a small and friendly team who work hard to get the job done. We support each other to solve problems and every member of the team has a say in how we work and how we can make things better
You will be working directly with Minal Backhouse (the MD) and her team of lawyers and support staff, a very experienced group who are passionate about helping each other develop and improve. Our team is usually based in our offices so we can see clients at short notice when needed. Our IT systems are cloud-based and allow us to work from home if needed.
Hours: Monday – Friday 9 am – 5.30 pm
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Pension scheme
- Flexible working considered
- Medicash, Health Cash Plan (Upon successful completion of probation)
- Professional training and personal development courses as needed to grow as an expert
- Expenses paid for Networking and Corporate events
- Friendly working environment
- Team lunches
- Discounted parking with Q-Park
- Always an unhealthy amount of cake in the office kitchen
Does this sound like the perfect role?
If so, send your CV and covering letter to HR@backhouse-solicitors.co.uk