Family Lawyer
Be career happy. Be your own boss. Be Cognitive.
We are all about changing the way lawyers work. If you are an experienced lawyer, becoming a Family Consultant Lawyer with Cognitive Law is easy.
Entrust your career to us and we will offer you:
- up to 70% on your fee income
- the welcome relief of a commute free life with more work/life balance
- freedom from internal meetings
- the flexibility to set your own charge out rates and working hours
- the facility to work when, where and how you want
- full back up and administrative support
The position is perfect for a well-rounded family lawyer – solicitor, legal executive or barrister with experience in working across a range of family matters, including divorce, separation agreements, financial settlements, children issues, mediation and pre-marriage agreements.
Take a look at our full brochure:
About Us
Cognitive Law is a contemporary law firm built on traditional foundations, that empowers its team to reclaim its work-life balance. Headquartered in Brighton, consultants working with Cognitive Law do so on a virtual and flexible basis, many of them from home. Each consultant manages their own client base and practice specialism, whilst being supported by a team based in the head office.
We have ambitious development plans and are actively looking for like-minded solicitors to join us in changing the way law is practised. If you have ambition and skills, we can give you the platform to practice law, outside of a traditional law firm environment. We are passionate about promoting a 100% flexible working environment, and are looking for solicitors to share our vision of working in a new way to deliver the best in legal services. It’s time to be properly valued and rewarded for your hard work.
It’s time to enjoy more freedom, more flexibility and more money.
About You
- 6-10 years PQE
- Commercially minded
- A proven track record in the commercial legal market
- Ambitious and driven
- Self-motivated
- Be able to demonstrate a client following or experience growing a client base
- Have a proven track record handling family cases in a large regional/city based law firm
- A commitment to offering the highest standard of client service
- Want to reclaim a work-life balance without compromising either
Are you Cognitive?
Our consultants are aspirational, passionate about their clients, and totally in control of their lives. With well-honed legal and business skills, Cognitive’s consultants are leaders in their fields, whom we enable to grow and flourish their practices.
Our consultants have excellent reputations for delivering legal services and managing client relationships. Gained through years of experience, they demonstrate empathy and understanding in all their connections and know how this transforms into a profitable business.
A Cognitive consultant knows that hard work is an ethic and a value; and that time spent does not just mean hours on a timesheet. Our consultants have the courage to ask questions, of themselves and of others. They actively think outside of traditional structures, in terms of both their clients’ needs, and their own careers.
Cognitive’s consultants have extensive experience (on average at least 8 years PQE) which gives them a solid professional grounding. But more importantly they are also individuals who want to be part of something new.
A consultant with Cognitive Law has the mindset and motivation to grow something scalable with long term value whilst thriving in a collegiate and supported environment.
How does Cognitive Law work?
It's not always a question of work/life balance, but of work/life management. There are times when you want or need to spend more time on a particular part of your life, and Cognitive can help you tip the scales in that favour.
As a Cognitive consultant you have the flexibility to plan when, where, and how you work at any given time. Our consultancy allows you to ditch the commute, bin the suit, and choose the clients you work for.
It might mean stepping out of your comfort zone, but it doesn’t mean going it alone. Cognitive’s mission is to facilitate working within a new, self-employed framework, without compromise.
Cognitive enables you to work freely as a self-employed consultant by providing you with full support and compliance, to make fee earning as easy as possible. There are no office hours, no fee earning targets, and no set chargeable hours. You simply do the legal work and leave the rest to us.
We will support you every step of the way.
The Financial Bit
Cognitive consultants earn 70% of all paid fees from the very start. Right from the beginning, we recognise your talent and reward you accordingly. And you can say goodbye to billing targets and fixed hourly rates. Cognitive consultants set their own charging structures appropriate to their clients.
With an increasing amount of work being completed to a fixed fee, we offer pricing strategy advice, giving you the autonomy to determine the appropriate pricing of your work. We reduce the risk of practising law independently by removing onerous overheads and putting in place financial controls and systems, such as self-billing, invoicing and credit control. No more financial reporting or fee forecasting - except for yourself. You can be confident that the time you spend working is productively spent on practising the law and servicing your clients.
Diversity and Inclusivity
Our mission is to provide high quality, personalised legal services, and exemplary client care across a range of legal sectors. To succeed in this mission we are committed to building a team that represents the widest variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills possible. No member of our team is the same as another and that’s our greatest strength. Collectively we can empower everyone to achieve their greatest individual potential.
In short, we want you for who you are, and the skills and experience you bring. We don’t care where you’re from, what you look like or what your home set up is. We want you. Full stop. All you have to be is brilliant and we’ll do the rest.