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.