Managing Associate/Legal Director

Private Client – Managing Associate/Legal Director (6+PQE)

Tier 2 Legal 500

Leeds City Centre | Hybrid Working

Competitive Salary

Hybrid working | 6% pension | Private medical | Discounted parking

An established Tier 2 Legal 500 Private Client practice based in Leeds is looking for a Director-level or Managing Associate lawyer to work alongside the department’s Partners on growing the private client offering locally, while running a full private client caseload in their own right.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working closely with Partners and other fee earners in the team
• Running your own caseload while providing supervisory oversight to more junior colleagues across a broad spread of private client work
• Preparing tailored Wills, incorporating trust arrangements designed around inheritance tax planning and asset protection, and overseeing execution formalities
• Advising on international estate planning, including Wills with a cross-border element
• Advising on succession planning for family and owner-managed businesses
• Establishing and administering Trusts and advising Trustees
• Collaborating cross-departmentally
• Liaising with tax accountants and other advisers on HMRC-related compliance, and coordinating with wealth managers and financial planners
• Administering Estates including high-value estates involving business interests and assets held abroad
• Advising beneficiaries on succession matters
• Advising on, and handling registration of, Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Working through technically complex matters requiring research and input from colleagues
• Delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members as needed
• Contributing to business development and networking

What They’re Looking For

• 6+ PQE handling private client work, including high-value and technically complex matters
• STEP qualified
• A collaborative mindset, equally comfortable working independently
• The ability to support and develop junior colleagues
• Interest in networking and business development events

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