Careers at Hughes Law Group

Family Law
Associate Attorney

A marital and family law docket that runs from the straightforward to the complex, in a firm led by a Board Certified attorney.

New Port Richey, Florida

How to Apply

Board Certified in Marital & Family Law Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Sixth Judicial Circuit

Family Law Associate Attorney

The cases that stay with you are the ones you prepared completely.

You knew the valuation. You understood the family's history well enough to see the dispute coming. You walked into the courtroom with the record already built. That is the standard we hold ourselves to at Hughes Law Group, and we are looking for an associate who wants to hold themselves to it too.

Who we are.

Hughes Law Group has practiced marital and family law in New Port Richey for decades, serving families throughout Pasco, Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Hernando counties. Our principal, Allyson Hughes, has been Board Certified in Marital and Family Law by The Florida Bar since 1998.

She has chaired the Florida Bar Family Law Section, served on its Executive Council, edited The Commentator, co-chaired the Bar's Matrimonial Trial Advocacy Seminar, contributed to the Marital and Family Law Certification Review Course, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

The practice.

You will carry a mix of files. Some are uncontested and close quickly. Others involve closely held businesses, professional practices, deferred compensation, and business valuations, along with contested parenting and timesharing disputes, relocation, and modification. We handle support and alimony questions that call for income analysis, and we run many collaborative divorces alongside financial and mental health professionals.

Your role.

You will draft the pleadings, the discovery, the mandatory disclosures, and the equitable distribution schedules. You will handle parenting plans and settlement agreements, present at case management conferences, motion calendar, and evidentiary hearings, and take your own depositions. If your experience allows it, you will appear in court. If you are newly admitted, you will assist with court presentation until you are ready to carry cases on your own.

Collaboration.

Allyson Hughes is available whenever you want a second view, whether that means planning an examination, talking through the shape of a case, or hearing the reasoning behind a decision. If you are earlier in practice, you will learn case preparation and presentation from someone who has done it for decades.

About Board Certification.

Certification in Marital and Family Law asks a candidate to document substantial trial and hearing experience, satisfy peer review, and pass a written examination. Fewer than one percent of Florida Bar members hold it. The matters you will handle here build the breadth and depth a certification application calls for, and the firm offers support toward that certification.

Your Qualifications

Admission to The Florida Bar in good standing, and the ability to write clearly, are required.

Two or more years in practice

If you have argued a contested matter in a Florida circuit court, you will handle your own files and argue your own hearings.

Newly admitted

If you are hard working, whether that shows through a family law clinic, a judicial internship, or a clerkship, we will train you, and you will start at second chair with your own drafting and research.

Experience with tax returns, business records, and financial affidavits is preferred. Prior practice in the Pasco, Hillsborough, or Pinellas family divisions, collaborative law training, and experience working alongside forensic accountants or valuation experts are all welcome. Both experienced lawyers and newly admitted lawyers are encouraged to apply.

Compensation and benefits.

The position is on site in New Port Richey. The firm pays a base salary from $75,000, set by experience, along with a percentage incentive tied to production that rises with tenure.

Health insurance
Florida Bar dues, CLE, and section membership
Retirement
Paid time off

Billing expectations are discussed at interview.