We haven’t hired a Managing Partner externally since 2021 – these roles are rare; they simply don’t come up often.

Adding to that, there aren’t too many roles in family law like our Managing Partner position, certainly not in a specialist family firm. Out of a team of almost 200 lawyers, we only have 12 Managing Partners.

If you’re a family lawyer in a leadership position and your ambitions aren’t matched by your firm, read on.

At Stowe we’re ambitious, we want to continue our growth while delivering the best family law offering throughout the country. You won’t be alone, working in the largest specialist family firm in the country you’ll have teams of colleagues who know family law intricately and who come together every day and pull in the same direction.

We’re looking for a Managing Partner to lead our Thames Valley team to continue the growth we’ve seen over the last few years. This role is a commercial position where you’ll continually grow the income and profitability of your region, and with the help of large, specialist teams attract both clients and new lawyers.

You’ll be a senior fee earner within the region. Still, we reduce your target to account for your time working with our leadership team to develop your people and ensure we maximise the commercial levers associated with the region.

Requirements

What you’ll bring to Stowe

• A qualified family lawyers with proven management experience
• Have business acumen and understand how to drive the performance of a team of lawyers
• Ability to coach develop and motivate a team to deliver exceptional client service
• Ambition – demonstrate being the best at what you do, inspiring the team, and instilling belief and confidence within them
• The ability to create an environment where fee earners strive to be the best at what they do

Benefits

What’s in it for me?

If you’re ambitious and really want to build the most client-centric, successful and rewarding specialist family law practice in the area, we’ll offer you a great salary, a chance to work with wonderful people and the opportunity to work in a really clever way. You’ll have the flexibility to work from home or the office, and you’ll arrange your days or weeks around your commitments, family, clients, team, and leisure activities. All without the boring and terrifying bits when you start on your own.

• A Lucrative bonus
• A wellbeing culture including paid Mental Wellbeing days, and access to counselling sessions
• Volunteering leave
• Diversity public holidays
• 26 days holiday
• Enhanced adoption, maternity, and paternity pay
• Paid leave for fertility treatment
• Emergency dependants leave
• Bereavement leave
• Private healthcare
• Training grants (Money towards learning something new for you)
• Life Assurance
• Contributory pension
• Flexible working - ask me about it!

We know how small the family law sector is and an advert can only say so much, so if you’re interested in a confidential chat to learn more about the role, our flexible working, salary or our parental leave policy, email (email address removed), or text me to arrange a time to speak on (phone number removed).

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