Family Solicitor

Family Solicitor | NQ-2 PQE | Reading

A long established, full service Thames Valley firm, with one of the region's largest and most respected family teams, is looking for an NQ+ solicitor to join its Reading office. The team is top tier recognised, handles complex, high net worth financial work alongside sensitive children matters, and has a culture built around support, development, and genuine work life balance.

From the outset, you will have direct client contact, meaningful file responsibility, and the chance to learn from people who do this work at the highest level regionally.

The Role

• Assist with a caseload of family matters, including complex divorce, financial remedies (often involving businesses), private children act applications, and international surrogacy work

• Work directly with the partner on high value and sensitive cases, you will not be hidden behind a screen of secretaries

• Assist senior associate's on specialist child arrangements cases, including contact disputes and more complex welfare matters

• Keep clients fully informed, building the kind of trust that generates repeat instructions and referrals

• Support the firm's business development and networking activities, attending events, building relationships with local professionals

What You Bring

• Training seat experience in family law (ideally including both financial remedies and children work)

• NQ+ PQE

• Enthusiasm, a strong work ethic, and empathy for clients at a difficult time

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal

• A team first mindset, with the ability to work collaboratively alongside partners and associates

• A commitment to the firm's values of excellence, integrity, and approachability

The Firm

• A leading Thames Valley practice with offices in Reading, Henley, Wokingham and London

• Over 65 specialist solicitors and 130 colleagues, including 22 partners

• Top tier recognised in the legal directories (Chambers UK, Chambers HNW, Legal 500)

• A high proportion of staff have worked there for many years, a reliable signal of a welcoming, supportive culture and genuine work life balance

• Hybrid working, with at least 25 days' leave plus public holidays and the Christmas/New Year closure

Why This Makes Sense
At NQ+, you have the foundations. The question is whether you spend the next few years as a junior pair of hands in a large, impersonal firm, or whether you step into a genuinely respected regional team where the work is complex, the partners are accessible, and your development is taken seriously.

This role offers the latter. Top tier family work. Direct exposure to a leading partner. A culture that people stay in for decades. And Reading, which gives you City quality cases without the London commute.

If you want to build a family law career in a firm that will invest in you from day one, this is the move.

Apply now or contact Harrison for a confidential discussion.