Premier Solicitors are looking for two Private Client Solicitors to join our busy Private Client team. The Solicitors will join a large Private Client team where there will be the opportunity to impact the department, grow with us, and achieve your goals, financial and career progression. One position is office (and/or hybrid) based at our Bedford office, and the other is fully remote.
You will need to be talented, driven, dedicated.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for managing your own caseload of private client files, the majority of which will be probate work, to include:
· Non-taxable estates
· Taxable estates
· Ancillary work (assents, registering life interest trusts, trust set up, dissolving trusts, deeds of variation)
You will assist the Directors to build and develop the department when necessary.
Candidate specification
- A qualified Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive with a minimum of 3 years’ PQE in Private Client work
- Good client care skills, provide professional and competent legal advice
- Strong IT skills
- Effective business development skills
- Capability to generate fees in accordance with agreed targets
- Proven experience of handling own caseload
- Ability to adhere to and manage deadlines
- Good drafting and writing skills, excellent communication and technical ability
- Preferably STEP qualified
- The role can be office based, hybrid, flexible and/or fully remote
