Partner - Employment Law - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Buckles Solicitors

Buckles Solicitors
Buckles Solicitors
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Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Come and join our team
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Buckles are recruiting for an experienced
Employment Law professional to join our well-established team.

The position is a permanent full-time (37.5 hours per week) role, and it will be a split of home and office working.

We are flexible on the office location for the role.

The position has become available due to growth within the Employment team.


Partner role purpose:


A partner is expected to be a senior role model with a proven track record of excellence in financial performance, people management, knowledge sharing, business development, and client relationship management, who contributes to the firm as a whole.

A partner has good self-awareness of their personal strengths and required areas for continued personal development.

Partners should demonstrate the required standards of behaviour and delivery in all areas of their personal performance.

Partners are required to support their Head of Department (HOD) in the delivery of departmental goals and to make strong, sustained and visible contributions to sectors in which they are members, mentoring and guiding junior staff members where required.


It is noted that partners who are not also HODs, or Head of Sector (HOS), will have more limited formal non-fee earning obligations and are therefore expected to provide enhanced levels of substantial, sustained and proactive personal contributions to sectors in which they are members.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing and innovative Family team. Employment Team.


Responsibilities of a Partner:


  • Consistently exceed client service expectations, proactively communicating with the client to keep them informed of relevant issues and demonstrating expertise and value at all times, undertaking this activity with good internal visibility so as to set and reinforce the standards that others will follow.
  • Combine technical legal advice with commercial awareness, adopting jargon free communication and anticipating client needs, so as to provide an ease of dealing that stands out in the eyes of the client.
  • Source internal expertise from other departments at appropriate levels of seniority to provide the most effective service to the client, routinely sharing learning, knowledge and know how within the team and firm, supervising junior lawyers and delegating where possible to facilitate the development of junior team members.
  • Actively seek ways to improve client service and identify improvements to internal processes to benefit the client and/or staff, sharing those insights with appropriate management groups.
  • Act as an ambassador for the firm in all aspects of conduct and behaviour, networking confidently both internally and externally and contributing regularly and prominently to departmental, sector and firm business development activity as well as encouraging and securing the participation of others and recognising others' efforts.
  • Proactively source opportunities for PR, contributing content for marketing activity and responding to client (and internal) feedback promptly, objectively and not defensively.
  • Provide enthusiastic and proactive contributions to help realise the firm's strategic goals, supporting the HOD in the delivery of departmental activity.
  • Develop and assist lawyers by coaching, mentoring, counselling and developing them.
  • Build the firm's future by targeting better clients and better work, originating new clients of the firm either on the partner's own initiative or through sector activity or other coordinated marketing activity, cross selling those clients to others in the firm.
  • Demonstrate the visions and values of the firm by example rather than words alone.

Role expectations as a Partner:


  • Show clear leadership by acting as a role model in all aspects of their personal and professional behaviour and conduct.
  • Show clear leadership in the required standards of file management, financial housekeeping and financial decision making, by ensuring client files in the partner's name are maintained in excellent order and fully audit and process compliant, and the files of other lawyers under the partner's supervision are monitored to ensure equal levels of compliance.
  • Correctly assess and act on risk in relation to the actions and decisions that come before the Partner.
  • Acting alone or in conjunction with the HOD, HOS or HR department when appropriate, take prompt steps to address any improper conduct issues observed by the Partner by intervening to prevent inappropriate behaviour by members of staff, so contributing to the development of a homogeneous culture.
  • Meet and exceed financial benchmarks, including total time capture, fees, 60day debts and archiving, maintaining files that meet audit requirements.
  • Negotiate pricing outcomes for personal work and work supervised by the Partner, that represents good value for the firm taking into account the retainer in question, the value of the clie
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