Private Client Senior Associate/Partner

Overview

Senior Private Client Solicitor role focused on leading a Private Client practice within a Legal 500 regional firm. You will build your own client base, mentor junior lawyers, and drive the Redhill office’s growth toward a defined Partnership path. The role combines high-quality wills, probate, trusts and related work with strategic leadership and business development. It offers autonomy, performance-based rewards, and a clear route to partnership in a collaborative, long-term culture.

Pay / Benefits

• salary reflecting seniority
• performance-based bonus
• clear route to Partnership
• hybrid and flexible working
• genuine autonomy
• influence over practice direction

Responsibilities

• Build and manage your own private client practice with a strong flow of complex work
• Bring your own clients and actively develop business opportunities
• Lead and mentor junior lawyers, shaping team development and practice operations
• Drive growth and raise the office profile within the firm and market
• Provide strategic input and influence over practice direction and firm strategy
• Progress toward Partnership based on performance and contribution
• Foster client relationships and deliver high-quality hands-on private client work

Key requirements

• 8+ PQE in Private Client law
• Proven track record of bringing in own work and building client relationships
• Management experience or capability in leading teams
• Comfortable in a senior, visible leadership role
• Commercial mindset with understanding of business development and practice growth
• Approachable and relationship-driven yet commercially astute
• Ambitious with genuine progression toward Partnership rather than salary alone

• relationship-building
• leadership
• commercial acumen
• wills
• probate
• estate administration

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