Solicitor - Tax, Wills & Probate (FTC 9-12 Months)
- Recruiter
- Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
- Location
- England, Kent, Canterbury
- Salary
- £50000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
- Posted
- 08 Sep 2022
- Closes
- 06 Oct 2022
- Ref
- 4280279
- Contact
- Vivien Zhou
- Job Title
- Solicitor
- Practice Area
- Wills & Probate
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Leading Financial Services Firm looking for a Lawyer focusing on Tax, Wills and Probate, 9- 12 months FTC
Your new company
Leading Financial Services Firm with multi offices on the South Coast and in City
Your new role
- Probate and Estate administration
- Succession planning through advising on wills, variations, inheritance tax, deprivation of capital, trusts, and assets transfers
- Trust advisory, creation, and termination
- Asset protection
- Creation and management of powers of attorney
- Monitor work progress and ensure appreciate client communication and colleagues
- Develops relationships with partners and managers across the service lines to encourage work
- Contributes to internal newsfeeds to advise colleagues of the services provided by the legal team
- Build and sustain relationships with external organisations and individuals to build a profile in the community and win new work
- Ensure a high level of client service from self and colleagues
- Where appropriate, the role will involve acting as PM and Product Lead/ Assistant Product Lead on Legal Service products and identifying training needs for self and colleagues
- Manage and enable best performance from the support team
- Network to heighten personal and firm profile, public speaking, cross/up selling firm's services, contributing to marketing initiatives including social media presence
- Scoping and budgeting effectively for all client work
- Ensure client work is managed within budget and billed in a timely manner
What you'll need to succeed
- Solid private client experience focusing on tax, wills and probate
- Ideally 2 + years PQE qualified solicitor in England & Wales but also can consider CILEX or Senior Paralegal experience with over 10 years experience in tax, wills and probate desk
- Proactive and hands on, and managing client independently
- Can be in Canterbury or Chatham office at least 2-3 days a week
What you'll get in return
can consider full time or part- time (4 days a week) candidate, total package including base and bonus, FTC role including all the perm staff benefits
What you need to do now
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