Job Description
This Private Wealth team in Leeds is expanding and they are looking to hire a STEP qualified Legal Director, with at least 8 years’ Private Wealth experience. Your caseload will include a broad and varied mix of Private Client work including Wills, Succession Planning, IHT planning, Trusts, Administration of Estates and LPAs. A large proportion of your clients will be high net worth or ultra-high net worth individuals and business owners. Clients will often have cross border issues and deceased estates will regularly be high value and complex. As Legal Director you will also be involved in firm-wide projects and take responsibility for certain tasks outside of the day-to-day legal work, such as strategic business development and team supervision, and learning and development. Due to the nature of the team’s clients, they are seeking someone with experience of working with high and ultra-high net worth individuals. You will be used to managing your own clients and possess excellent technical expertise. Your experience will span across lifetime planning, estates, inheritance tax planning and probate. In respect of probate work, whilst the firm has a separate contentious private client team, they are regularly engaged to act as independent administrators of highly contentious estates. You will therefore ideally have experience, and be comfortable, administering the complexities of contentious families in probate cases.
Having experience of successfully supervising members of a team with complex caseloads is essential. The ability to generate your own work from existing professional connections would also be desirable but not essential. Candidates with strong cross-border experience would also be of interest. To enjoy working in this team and thrive in the firm you will need to be motivated, a team player, commercially minded, calm under pressure and be able to work equally well autonomously and collaboratively. The role is based in Leeds with the ability to work from home 2-3 days per week.