The vacancy
Moore Barlow is currently seeking a Paralegal to join our Family Team in our offices in Richmond.
More about us
Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow is a leading law firm with the aim to be the best law firm to work for regionally. We are a career firm, providing access to high-quality work, long-term career opportunities and a culture built on a core value of being "human first" in everything we do. Put simply, we care as much about your career as you do. We are featured in The Times' Best Law Firms 2025 list, and consistently achieve recognition for the quality of our services in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
We are now 450 people, including 280 lawyers, and 58 Partners with offices across the South-East and London.
More about the Family Team
Our specialist Family Team, and a number of individual lawyers, have received recognition in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Our team are known for providing a supportive and collaborative service, believing that our efforts should be focused on achieving the right outcome for our clients.
Ours is a large and experienced team handling high-net-worth and complex matters. With offices in London, Richmond, Woking, Guildford, Southampton, and Lymington, we are ideally placed to act for clients in the HNW hubs of London and the Home Counties.
Here is some further information on the type of work our team handles:
* Finance: we regularly deal with HNW and complex financial remedy both in and out of the court system. Our financial remedy matters are frequently complex and include trusts, non-marital assets, business structures, pensions, and inherited wealth, as well as more volatile assets such as stocks and shares. We often act for international clients and many of these cases have an international element.
* Family agreements: either pre or post-nuptial agreements, but also cohabitants. We also, where appropriate, secure "mirror" agreements in other jurisdictions.
* Non-court dispute resolution: there are four collaboratively trained lawyers in the team, as well as four mediators – we encourage and recommend the NCDR route wherever possible.
* Accord – one couple, one lawyer, one aim: in October 2022, we launched this scheme which enables clients who are not in conflict to instruct the same lawyer to handle their divorce or separation and related financial and children matters, greatly streamlining matters and ultimately leading to more efficient routes to agreed outcomes.
* Modern families: we often advise on cohabitation agreements, as well as dealing with cohabiting couples separating, specialising in financial remedy applications for cohabitants including Schedule 1 and TLATA. This is a niche area of family law where some firms lack expertise. We are also leaders in the area for surrogacy matters.
* Child abduction: ours is one of the few teams in the country permitted to undertake matters concerning the abduction of a child. These matters can be extremely complex and distressing for the families involved, and our team works with experts here in the UK and abroad to ensure the safe return of the child to their home.
* We also undertake complex private children law disputes.
Our team always strives to achieve the best possible outcomes for their clients, which often involves taking a constructive and non-confrontational approach and avoiding court proceedings wherever possible.
Day to Day:
As a Paralegal in our team, you will work on a wide variety of matters, supporting numerous lawyers across the Richmond team under the supervision and leadership of our highly experienced Partner, Victoria Walker.
In addition, you will:
* Collaborate closely with colleagues of all seniorities in the team, working towards achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients.
* Have the opportunity to run your own small caseload of files appropriate to your level of experience, with guidance from one of the more senior lawyers in the team.
* Offer initial guidance and advice to new clients, and act as a point of contact and team liaison throughout the matter.
* Collaborate closely with the team, sharing your insights and knowledge that will help to shape the direction of the matter, and outcomes for the client.
* Attend client meetings, undertake research, and draft documentation relevant to a matter.
What we look for:
* An existing or aspiring Paralegal – it would be great if you had some prior experience working as part of a Family team, but this is not essential.
* You will be calm under pressure, adopt a naturally proactive approach to your work, and have the ability to provide support to numerous colleagues across the team.
* You will be naturally caring, empathetic, and confident in engaging with individuals who are often facing difficult circumstances.
* You will be confident in building relationships within and outside of your immediate team and working collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcomes for your clients.
* We are human-first in everything we do and seek people who share this trait. You will therefore have great communication skills, a passion for helping clients achieve their goals and the ability to think creatively.
* Familiarity with time recording and experience with managing a small fee-target would be ideal but is not essential.
If you have the required skills and experience and are keen to advance your career as part of our Family Team, then we strongly encourage you to apply.
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity before applying, please contact Brandon Duchesne, Talent Acquisition Manager, for an informal conversation –
Who we are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you'll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What we can offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it's this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days' annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you're seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you'll find this at Moore Barlow.
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