Weightmans
Disputed Wills Trusts and Estates Senior Solicitor
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Our Disputed Wills, Trusts and Estates Team
Our Disputed Wills, Trusts and Estates team is one of the leading private wealth disputes groups across the UK. Our multiple award-winning department and people are ranked across both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 for their specialist expertise in contentious trusts and estates work. This is therefore an excellent opportunity to develop and continue your career in a market-leading contentious trusts and probate team and work alongside Partner Ben Wilson, who is a ranked individual in this field.
Our team has experience in some of the most high-value and complex disputes in the country, extending to multi-jurisdictional disputes. We have specialist expertise in will validity claims and challenges, trust disputes, claims involving the administration of estates, proprietary estoppel, Inheritance Act claims, professional negligence claims and disputes involving trustees, executors and beneficiaries. We are regularly instructed by high net worth individuals, landowners, executors, beneficiaries and trustees, trusts, local authorities, charities and charitable trusts, community interest companies, solicitors, financial advisors and accountants.
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Our team is supported by a national network with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, London, Newcastle and Nottingham, giving us national coverage for private client services. We are also supported and complimented by a number of non-contentious specialist STEP qualified lawyers and a specialist Court of Protection team. As part of a full service firm, we are able to provide top quality private client advice alongside essential corporate, employment, tax and property advice and support.
This is a chance to join a specialist and experienced team exclusively working in the contentious probate arena and handling a wide variety of work types within that sphere.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
- Assisting the partners with their caseloads
- Pro-actively manage your own caseload with limited supervision
- Supervise more junior members of the team
- Draft and perform legal research, investigations, etc
- Attend conferences, court and client meetings
- Communicate with clients, counsel and other parties
- Involvement in business development (ConTrA, ACTAPS, STEP, NCPG etc) and profile raising initiatives as well as alignment to relevant segment/sector groups
- Preferably work across our Manchester/Newcastle/Leeds offices directly reporting to Ben Wilson but also attend the firm’s other offices as necessary from time to time
- Complete client and internal MI procedures
- Achieve set financial and chargeable targets
- Ensure relevant deadlines, quality measures and KPIs are adhered to
- Comply with relevant policies and procedures
- Work in accordance with Weightmans’ values
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