Careers at Holmes & Hills

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.

Recognised as a leading regional law firm

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:

• ERC (Equity Release Council)
• ALEP (Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners)
• STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners)
• Resolution
• Conveyancing Quality Scheme (Law Society)
• Headway
• Lexcel
• Cyber Essentials
• APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers)

Our Mission and five Firm Values

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:

An ambitious and growing firm

Holmes & Hills has grown significantly over recent years, from 70 staff to 160 and from two offices to six. 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.

Modern and agile working environment

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.

Flexibility

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.

Benefits

In addition to a great remuneration package, a career at Holmes & Hills also provides a number of additional benefits. Employees are able to enjoy an employee assistance programme, providing virtual GP access 24/7, mental health support and medical second opinions and have the assurance of a death in service package. Employees also have the option to opt in to self-funded medical insurance policies including dental cover and critical illness protections with the ability to tailor their policy to their lifestyle and family needs, including additional spousal/family cover, all available at group rates*

In addition to the above, Holmes & Hills employees benefit from a retail discount platform across a number of online and in store brands, and a cycle to work scheme – all of which help to provide a healthy work life balance.

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.

*Effective as of 1st July 2021.