Private Client Trusts Associate – 3+ PQE – Dorchester

Overview

In this role you will join a respected private client trusts team in Dorchester to deliver high-quality trust administration and advisory work. You will contribute to growing the firm’s private client offering within a collaborative, people‑focused environment. The role combines complex trust matters with practical client service, offering clear scope for development and career progression. This is a hybrid, full‑time position at a Top 200 UK law firm with strong emphasis on client care and wellbeing.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working
• 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Birthday day off
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme(s)
• Life assurance

Responsibilities

• Trust creation and advisory work
• Trust administration and compliance
• Managing trust assets
• Providing taxation advice relating to trusts
• Asset management and investment oversight
• Communicating with and educating beneficiaries

Key requirements

• Strong private client background with hands-on trust administration experience
• Solid technical knowledge and a commercial approach to trust law and practice
• Ability to manage own caseload with supervision from a Partner
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative, team-focused mindset
• Proactive, enthusiastic and ambitious approach
• Growth mindset and ability to see the wider commercial picture
• Applications welcome from qualified solicitors or experienced trust professionals

• Collaborative mindset
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proactive and ambitious attitude
• Trust creation and advisory
• Trust administration and compliance
• Taxation advice relating to trusts

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