Legal Engineer, amicable
Residential Conveyancing
£50-70k
Relationships legal service
Open for applications
£50-70k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to help people navigate relationship change with kindness, clarity and practical support. From moving in together to getting married, separating, co-parenting or blending families, amicable helps thousands of couples have better conversations and make clearer decisions.
Role
Who you are
- At least 8 years' PQE in residential conveyancing. Experience of working with people following divorce or separation is essential. You need to be comfortable running your own files
- Excellent technical skills and strong knowledge of residential conveyancing in England and Wales, including the ability to handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision
- We're a small team, so you need to be equally comfortable getting on with things yourself and working closely with others
- Good understanding of technology, ideally, you're the person in your current firm who actually works out the case management system or writes the automation everyone else then uses. You're comfortable using AI, but sceptical enough to know when it's producing plausible nonsense
- A real appetite for running cases differently, you'll be testing and shaping our technology and we expect you to have opinions about it. You'll spot ways to improve how we run files and, sometimes, you'll just go and implement them. If you fundamentally believe the way you've always run a property transfer is the way it should always be done, this probably isn't the job for you
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a changing job, not every process or system will be in place when you arrive. Often you'll be the person creating it. One day you'll be deep in a transfer; the next you might be testing a tool, rewriting a template or sitting with the product team
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced Conveyancing Solicitor, licenced conveyancer or appropriately qualified CILEX to join us at the beginning and help build amicable Legal
- As well as running files, you'll be helping us work out how the firm should operate, what we automate, what we don't, which processes are genuinely useful and which bits of transferring property after divorce or separation we can do better
- The conveyancing work will be focussed on transfers between couples when they divorce or separate. It sits naturally alongside our family work and helps people move on to the next chapter
- You'll be key in helping us design how this service runs - the process, the technology and the safeguards behind it. You'll handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision, working closely with our family team and, often, with both people in a separating couple
- This is a chance to build a conveyancing service from scratch, do it properly, and do it in a kinder way - with the backing of an established group behind you. You'll be instrumental in designing the process and the tools, rather than fitting into someone else's
- Handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision
- Lead our conveyancing service, working closely with the family team and often with both people in a separating couple
- Help design the process, technology and safeguards behind a new conveyancing service
- Build the service from scratch, with the freedom to shape the tools and process rather than inherit someone else's
- Support people to move on to their next chapter, with care and clarity at every step
- You run your own files with minimal supervision, you'll be dealing directly with clients
Application process
- A note on timing: amicable Legal's application to the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been submitted and is pending acceptance. The firm isn't yet authorised, so this role is offered subject to that authorisation being granted. We're recruiting now so we're ready to go as soon as we can
Salary benchmarks
Our take
amicable is on a mission to revolutionise the way people end relationships, aiming to make the process kinder and more efficient than traditional solicitor-led approaches. By focusing on a technology-driven model, Amicable offers a modern alternative to conventional legal practices, enabling couples to avoid the emotional and financial strain often associated with traditional methods of divorce and separation.
The company's innovative approach to divorce, separation, and co-parenting has positioned it as a trusted brand in the industry. With a commitment to delivering empathetic, fixed-fee services, amicable effectively guides couples through the complexities of ending a relationship.
amicable promotes a collaborative culture and is rapidly growing to meet demand and legislative change, elevated in part by its acquisition by Octopus Money in 2023. Emphasising values such as kindness, flexibility, trust, professionalism, and customer focus, amicable is dedicated to pioneering a better way for couples to part ways.
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Meet the team
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Kate Daly, Co-founder
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Company benefits
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays per annum (pro-rated)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private health insurance
- Group life assurance
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Share Incentive Plan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
Company values
- Empathy & Kindness
- Trust & Professionalism
- Pioneering
- Customer Focus
Company HQ
Richmond, UK
Leadership
Pip Wilson
(Co-founder & CEO)Board Trustee and Deputy Chair of the The RSA. Former Trustee / Board Member of The Girls' Network, Founder and Board Director of Bluefin Solutions and was also Consultant at a number of companies.
Kate Daly
(Co-founder & Host of The Divorce Podcast)Former Family Consultant and Divorce Coach at FamilyChange. Was also a Counsellor, Coach and Consultant at KDCPPS, Director at PeopleFanClub and Senior Manager at KPMG.
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