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About The Role
Private Client Senior Associate
We are seeking an experienced private client lawyer to join our private client team based in our Cardiff office. This private client lawyer will be joining at senior associate level and play a key role in the growth of the private client team and Cardiff office.
About The Team
Our Private Client team is one of the largest and most highly regarded in the country, with around 120 specialists working across the HCR network. Consistently recognised by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, our team includes many lawyers ranked amongst the leading specialists in their field.
We advise a broad spectrum of clients, including HNW and UHNW individuals, families, business owners, trustees, and landed estates, delivering strategic advice across all aspects of private client work.
Collaboration is integral to our approach, and we work closely with colleagues across the wider firm to provide holistic, tailored advice that meets our client’s needs.
Our Cardiff office is home to a supportive and collaborative culture where knowledge is shared openly, colleagues work closely together, and everyone is encouraged to contribute to the success of the wider team. You'll have access to excellent quality work, strong leadership support, and clear opportunities for progression within a highly regarded national practice.
About The Role
Our nationally recognised Private Client team is looking to recruit a private client solicitor to join them at Senior Associate level. You’ll be joining our successful private client team in our growing Cardiff office.
We advise a broad range of clients to include HNW individuals, business owners, agricultural clients, private family trusts, and families across multiple generations. The private client team is widely recognised for the quality of its work and collaborative approach.
You’ll have the opportunity to manage a high quality and varied caseload to include wills, trusts, estate administration, probate, tax, and succession planning. You’ll work closely with clients on long term planning, often supporting families across generations.
As an experienced private client lawyer, you will be confidently managing complex matters, building strong client relationships, and acting as a dependable member of the team. You’ll enjoy autonomy, whilst supporting and mentoring more junior colleagues as the team continues to grow.
Alongside your technical work, you’ll be encouraged to play an active role in business development and strengthening relationships both across the firm and externally across your wider professional network. You will take part in the wider initiative to build the firm’s profile across the Cardiff market.
About You
We are looking for:
- Qualified solicitor, or CILEX lawyer, with at least 5 years’ PQE.
- A strong, technical background in private client and the ability to autonomously manage a varied, and complex, caseload.
- The ability to mentor and supervise junior members of the team.
- Experience within the Cardiff market, an existing local network would be advantageous.
- A keen business developer who is able to build connections, manage relationships effectively, have a strong commercial acumen, and demonstrate a growth mindset.
- Ideally STEP qualified or working towards this.
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Why Join
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a large private client team within a growing and ambitious Top 50 law firm. You will be joining a collaborative environment, where you will play a key role in the growth of our Cardiff private client team and office, whilst being trusted, supported, and given the platform to succeed.
If you are looking for the next step in your career or interested in how your career could look at HCR, please get in touch with Emma Worton in our recruitment team to have a confidential conversation.
01905 746285
Benefits Of Working With Us
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance
- Sight tests / Glasses discounts
- Bonus scheme
- Electric vehicle scheme
- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life Assurance
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
- Flu vaccinations
Is HCR the smart move for you?
HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.
Why HCR people love their jobs
Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen, and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.
What career progression will HCR offer you?
HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.
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What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?
As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 50, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders, and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service, we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 1000 lawyers and support staff, including more than 180 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.
With 13 offices in England and Wales, our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly across all our regions, and are well-respected as a regional firm with a strong London and international presence.
With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.
As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.
We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.
A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership.
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