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Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Maidenhead (Hybrid - 3 days on-site, 2 days from home)
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum (depending on experience)
About us:
It's inevitable that all of us are going to deal with death at some time in our lives. It’s a fundamental, tragic part of what it is to be human. But the services that should be supporting us haven’t changed in decades.
Senior Probate Solicitor (5+ PQE)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Maidenhead (Hybrid - 3 days on-site, 2 days from home)
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum (depending on experience)
About us:
It's inevitable that all of us are going to deal with death at some time in our lives. It’s a fundamental, tragic part of what it is to be human. But the services that should be supporting us haven’t changed in decades.
From writing your will to planning a funeral or organising probate, the way we deal with death can be complicated and expensive. Instead of feeling supported, people feel lost.
But it doesn’t need to be this way. We started Farewill to make the experience warmer, brighter, and friendlier. Now we’re the UK’s top-rated probate provider, and help our customers pledge over £300 million to charities through gifts left in their wills.
We’ve also joined the Dignity Group - one of the major providers of funeral services in the UK. Together, we’re on a mission to change the way the world deals with death. It’s no small task, and we’re looking for a Probate Solicitor to help us do it.
The role:
Are you ready to take the next step in your legal career with one of Europe’s most progressive consumer legal tech companies? We’re seeking a talented Solicitor to join our high-performing, newly established legal team. In this role, you’ll work closely with our Head of Legal and collaborate cross-functionally with our sales and product teams to help deliver best-in-class Wills and Probate services to our clients.
You will:
* Lead and manage complex and high-value probate cases from instruction to estate distribution.
* Provide expert legal advice on both taxable and non-taxable estates.
* Draft and review probate documents, including, Inheritance tax forms, and estate accounts.
* Ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory frameworks.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, operations, client services) to enhance service delivery.
* Contribute to the development of innovative, technology-enabled probate processes.
* Balance legal risk and business objectives with a pragmatic, commercial mindset.
* Mentor junior legal staff and contribute to legal knowledge-sharing within the team.
What We’re Looking For:
* 5+ years’ post-qualification experience as a probate solicitor.
* Demonstrable expertise managing complex, high-value estates.
* Strong understanding of probate law, estate administration, tax, and compliance.
* Confident in a range of legal drafting, particularly IHT forms and estate accounts.
* Commercially aware, with a solutions-focused, pragmatic approach.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Comfortable working in a technology-driven, fast-paced environment.
* Collaborative mindset - able to work well with legal and non-legal colleagues alike.
What We Offer:
* Annual salary of up to £65,000 depending on experience
* 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
* BUPA Healthcare (Self)
* Company Bonus Incentive
* X2 Life Assurance
* Pension Scheme
* Hybrid flexible working (3 days in our Maidenhead office)
* Genuine career progression and mentorship opportunities
* A chance to make a meaningful contribution to people's lives and deaths
What are the next steps?
To be considered for this role, please submit your application via the ‘apply’ button, where a member of our Talent Team will review your application.
About Us
We are Dignity, one of the UK’s oldest and most trusted funeral providers, with over 200 years of history, 570 branches, and 46 crematoria. From launching the UK’s first funeral plan to helping shape modern regulation, we have led the way in supporting families with care, compassion, and professionalism.
Now we are building the UK’s leading end of life company. As part of the Dignity Group, we also operate Farewill, the country’s largest will writer and one of the UK’s top probate providers, giving families support not just at the funeral, but before and after as well.
Today we are over 4,000 people across the UK, all driven by the same goal: to care for families with compassion and make the UK a world leader in end of life care. Here to help, whenever you need.
FCA Statement
We’re regulated by the FCA, so some roles may be subject to background checks
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We know that diverse teams make better decisions, build better products, and create a better place to work. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever your life looks like, we’d love to hear from you. And if there’s anything you need to make the process more accessible, please let us know
We aim to empower leaders and colleagues to seek out and understand new voices and perspectives; to be vocal about inequity and exclusion, and to take decisive, informed, and bold action to promote inclusion and belonging.
Any unsolicited submissions from agencies will be accepted as a direct application from the candidate and no fees will be payable.
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
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