Holmes & Hills Solicitors has grown significantly in recent years and continues to pursue an ambitious growth strategy. Underpinning this growth strategy is recruiting excellent people for positions across the business, including senior and junior lawyers, trainees, support staff and management.
Lawyers and support staff at Holmes & Hills work in partnership with clients and professional contacts when providing legal services. When you join Holmes & Hills, you will find that the Partners, your direct managers and your colleagues will work with you to lend support, offer guidance, give you a sounding board and help you to develop your career.
Holmes & Hills is recognised as a leading supplier of legal advice and representation in the region across several areas of law including Commercial Property, Family Law, Planning Law and medical negligence. Holmes & Hills is ranked in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. The firm and its legal teams are also on panels for, or are accredited by:
A full service law firm with its heart in Essex and Suffolk, we are legal specialists providing regional services to East Anglia. We excel in creating long standing partnerships with our clients, protecting their interests and supporting their growth and development. Our large team of specialists work in partnership with individuals and organisations to provide them with truly proactive legal services through personal relationships. Acting as a trusted advisor to our clients, we take the time to understand each client's needs and objectives before delivering practical advice through a personal and accessible approach.
Born out of our Mission Statement and taken from in-depth feedback and comments that clients have provided in relation to what they really value about dealing with Holmes & Hills, come Holmes & Hills' five Firm Values:
To be professional is to work in partnership with our clients to understand their needs, to enable us to provide specialist advice and to act with integrity.
To be proactive is to actively progress matters and work as promptly as possible through preemptive communication, organisation and prioritisation, as well as contributing to the development of your team and the firm.
To be accessible is to be readily contactable and to provide timely responses to communications from colleagues, clients and professional contacts.
To be personable is to be pleasant for clients, contacts and colleagues to deal with, be it in person, over the phone, or via email and to leave others felling like they are dealing with a person as opposed to a faceless company.
To understand the circumstances, motivations and emotions of clients, colleagues and contacts and to tailor your service delivery and communication appropriately.
Holmes & Hills has grown significantly over recent years, from 70 staff to 180 and from two offices to seven. The firm's growth continued in 2020 with the opening of its sixth and new regional head office, the A12 Commercial Hub, at Junction 25 of the A12 (Marks Tey, Essex).
The location of the office will provide convenience for clients, staff and professional contacts alike, with ample and free on site parking, as well as being based just a short walk from Marks Tey train station.
Colleagues based at, or frequenting, the new A12 Commercial Hub will find it has been designed by a team of architects and interior designers to provide a modern, agile working and meeting environment; one that provides space for working alone in different settings throughout the day; working in teams in open and confidential spaces; as well as meeting clients in formal and informal meeting rooms, or indeed in the large dedicated coffee lounge.
45% of colleagues at Holmes & Hills were working flexibly in some form prior to the Coronavirus pandemic, from working part-time to working from home. Your career and working week in the legal industry can look different as part of the ambitious and growing team of legal industry professionals at Holmes & Hills Solicitors.
In addition to a great remuneration package, a career at Holmes & Hills also provides a number of additional benefits.
After 1 years service all employees receive Unum Dental Cover and Medicash Health Plan.
We also feel it is important to recognise the hard work and performance of our employees, so we also offer a monthly reward programme, encouraging employees to nominate colleagues that have gone over and above their duty, as well as regular after work drinks and team building events.
Speculative CV’s should not be sent for roles advertised on our career page. We only accept agency CV’s for specific roles. Where we require an agency to provide us with CV’s a member of the HR Team will contact the specific recruiter directly to request CV’s for that specific role. In no other circumstances should unsolicited CV’s be sent to our employees or partners.
No agency fee will apply to speculative CV’s sent by agencies. Where an agency submits unsolicited CV’s no commission or other fees will be due if we subsequently employ that candidate, even where an agency’s correspondence contains a disclaimer indicating otherwise.
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