Senior Private Client Solicitor
Skills
Private Client LawWillsTrustsProbateEstate AdministrationLasting Powers Of AttorneyCourt Of Protection
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 8+ years PQE as a Private Client Solicitor in wills tax and estate planning and probate
- Supervisory experience with ability to mentor trainees and paralegals
- Strong technical expertise and commercial awareness
- Strong knowledge of trusts including creation administration and variation
- Sound understanding of trust-related conveyancing and Land Registry practice
- Experience of probate and estate administration
- Ability to manage caseloads independently and efficiently
- Excellent attention to detail
- Familiarity with case management systems and digital document platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Nice to have
- Ambitious
- Collaborative
- Long-term mindset
- Commercially aware
- Detail-focused
Day to day
- Oversee the legal delivery of completed advice and documents across private client matters, with a strong hands-on focus on technical drafting and completion.
- Advise on and prepare complex trusts, Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney, while ensuring documents are completed accurately and efficiently.
- Manage probate, estate administration and Court of Protection work, keeping matters progressing smoothly and maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.