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Private Client Senior Associate
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PRIVATE CLIENT SENIOR ASSOCIATE (WILLS, PROBATE & ESTATE PLANNING) – Competitive Salary – Oxford – Flexible Holiday, Healthcare, Career Progression
The Private Client Senior Associate Job
An award-winning Legal 500-ranked law firm is looking to appoint a Private Client Senior Associate to join its highly regarded Wills, Probate & Estate Planning team.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced private client lawyer looking to take the next step within a growing and ambitious team. You'll advise a broad range of private individuals, families and business owners on complex estate planning matters while playing an active role in mentoring junior colleagues and helping shape the future growth of the department.
Alongside managing high-quality work, you'll have the opportunity to build lasting client relationships, contribute to business development and become an integral part of a collaborative and forward-thinking practice.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing a varied caseload of private client matters from instruction through to completion
- Advising clients on wills, estate planning and succession matters
- Preparing and registering Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Administering both taxable and non-taxable estates
- Advising on trusts, estate structures and post-death planning
- Drafting Deeds of Variation and supporting wider estate planning strategies
- Supervising and mentoring junior members of the team
- Developing client relationships and contributing to networking and business development initiatives
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This is an outstanding opportunity to join a respected Legal 500 team where you'll be encouraged to develop your technical expertise while helping drive the continued success of the department.
The Private Client Senior Associate Candidate
The successful candidate will be an experienced private client lawyer who enjoys delivering exceptional client service while working on technically interesting and rewarding matters.
You'll ideally have:
- Significant experience across private client law
- Strong knowledge of wills, probate, trusts and estate planning
- Experience administering both taxable and non-taxable estates
- Excellent drafting and technical skills
- A commercial approach with strong relationship-building ability
- Experience supervising or mentoring junior colleagues
- STEP qualified or currently working towards STEP accreditation (preferred)
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- A proactive, collaborative and client-focused approach
The Private Client Senior Associate Package
- Competitive salary
- Flexible annual leave policy
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Medical health cash plan
- Virtual GP and wellbeing support
- Employee discount portal
- Clear career progression opportunities
- Opportunity to join a Legal 500-ranked team with genuine scope for progression
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Modus Talent is a specialist recruitment consultancy focused on delivering high-quality permanent recruitment solutions across professional and commercial functions. We work closely with businesses to support hires across finance, business support, sales, marketing, operations and leadership roles, partnering with clients on both individual appointments and long-term hiring strategies.
Our approach is methodical, consultative and tailored, offering more than just CVs. Our services include bespoke recruitment solutions, targeted search and selection, candidate profiling, market insight, and end-to-end recruitment support designed to create lasting placements for both clients and candidates.
To find out how Modus Talent can support your next career move or help you secure the right hire for your business, please visit www.modustalent.co.uk or contact our team on 0121 805 5377 to arrange a confidential conversation.
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