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Private Client Solicitor (0-4 years PQE)

Employer
Actis Recruitment
Location
Merseyside, Lancashire
Salary
£based on experience
Closing date
26 Mar 2018
Reference
56940/TML

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Practice area
Private client
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
Newly qualified, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

Highly regarded and well-established law firm is looking to appoint an additional specialist in Wills, Probate, Trusts and Wealth Protection Service

Based in the Merseyside and West Lancashire area, this thriving, full service law firm offers excellent quality work and career progression.

The nature of the role and remuneration is likely to appeal to a recently qualified solicitor with previous experience of private client services. Typical instructions will cover:

  • Preparing and advising on Wills.
  • Estate planning through wills, lifetime trusts and ongoing trusts.
  • Elderly advice such as panning around care and nursing costs
  • Powers of Attorney and Advance Directives
  • Obtaining Probate and Orders of Administration
  • Collection of assets and estate distribution
  • IHT calculations and liaising with Inland Revenue
  • Court of Protection
  • Contested Probates

With the benefit of advising a diverse client base, the firm is instructed on a varied range of instructions managing trusts and estates of all sizes.

You will be supporting the Head of Department, a highly experienced and STEP accredited Private Client lawyer, who will provide excellent support and mentoring.

In this role, you will be afforded plenty of client contact undertaking a varied and interesting range of quality, private client work

Actis Legal specialises in the North West legal market and with such a detailed knowledge of the region, we are able to provide tailored and bespoke advice to individuals we act for and identify suitable career moves.  All enquiries treated in the strictest of confidence.

** Please note that references to post qualification experience (PQE) are given as a guideline to the competences required for technical, client and case management skills, as well as budgeted salary for the role. We encourage you to apply for any job for which you feel you are a suitable candidate.

Company

Actis Legal Recruitment is an independent, specialist consultancy, niche in its market and covering the North West legal business sector.

We have an outstanding reputation for offering law firms and lawyers a high quality service and sound advice in solicitor and legal recruitment. All our Senior Consultants have practised as qualified Solicitors and bring with them real life experience working as a lawyer before becoming professionally trained, legal recruitment consultants. This combination of experience and skills means that our consultants have extensive contacts and networks that open doors into the market that may otherwise remain closed. By sharing these networks and our expertise, we are able to add real value whether you as an individual or part of a team are seeking a new opportunity, or a law firm looking to appoint.

By focusing specifically on the legal sector within the region, our team is uniquely positioned to offer relevant and expert advice. We know the legal recruitment market inside out and we are in touch with firms of varying size and disciplines, Lawyers of all levels of experience and seniority. Based in Manchester, we are well positioned to cover all of the North West legal sector.

We thoroughly enjoy the business we’re in and the lawyers we get to meet. We’re proud of our reputation too.

Our mission statement is “Professional recruitment with integrity”, which extends across every element of our business.

Company info
Website
Telephone
07855 312401
Location
Barnet House
53 Fountain Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 2AN
GB

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