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Job Title: Private Client Solicitor (3 years PQE+)
Location: Cheshire (Hybrid 50/50 split)
Salary: Dependent on Experience (Competitive)
Contract Type: Full-time or Part-time (4 days if Part-time) Permanent.
Minimum Experience Required: 3 years Post Qualified Experienced NEEDED
Department Structure:
The Ideal candidate will join, within the department at a level commensurate with their experience and seniority, a department presently consisting of one part-time Solicitors and a part-time Private Client Executive. Possible managerial and supervisory responsibility for other Fee Earners in the Private Client Department (depending upon own experience and seniority).
Required detailed knowledge :
- Wills and will drafting, flexible life interest wills, discretionary trust wills.
- Estate planning including APR and BPR.
- Enduring powers of attorney.
- Lasting powers of attorney.
- Administration of estates - both simple and complex estates - IHT400/IHT205, corrective accounts, APR/BPR, deeds of variation.
- Trusts and trust administration including exit and 10 year charges, tax returns, accounts, deeds of appointment and retirement of trustees, deeds of advancement, advising on taxation of trusts.
- Knowledge of Court of Protection applications for deputy ship would probably also be helpful but not essential.
Benefits:
- Own office and secretarial support.
- Hours - 9.00 am - 5.15 pm with lunch between 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm.
- Holiday entitlement 23 +bank / public pa.
- Pension: yes.
- Health care: yes.
- Bonus structure: performance-related annual bonus.
- Salary review: annual.
If you are an experienced Private Client Solicitor with a passion for all Private Client matters and are looking for a new challenge with an excellent firm, we would love to hear from you.
