Senior Associate/Partner – Private Client
Expertise: Legacy
Experience: 6+ Years PQE
Bold, dynamic and growing rapidly, Laurus is the law firm that’s redefining the legal experience.
We are looking for like-minded people to help us evolve our business and enhance our reputation - and yours. In return we offer a highly competitive salary and benefits package as well as many opportunities for growth, mentoring and development.
Having established ourselves as one of the City's up and coming firms for property, family, and legacy matters, we are growing our team to support and build our exciting and dynamic client base.
We believe in modern working practices and are happy to consider candidates who are interested in working flexibly or in an agile way, based in either Aldgate or Clapham.
The role will suit a solicitor or Legal Executive with 6 years + PQE with outstanding client care, and the ambition to develop their practice whilst supporting the Head of Legacy in supervising and mentoring a thriving team. The role may also suit an experienced solicitor who wishes to support us on a consultancy basis.
You will need to be pragmatic, have an eye for detail, and be prepared to think on your feet. You should have solid experience of a wide range of private client matters with technical expertise, outstanding client care skills, and the ambition to work in a dynamic environment. You may wish to be considered for a future leadership role.
As a Senior Associate or Partner, you’ll be the operational backbone with which the department stands. You’ll be an ambassador of the firm – working directly with and for our key clients and continuing to build upon our reputation for excellence.
Together with the Head of Legacy and senior management team you will share the responsibility for our commercial success in delivering budgets, training and mentoring of team members, and preserving our core SLAs so that our business has the strongest possible foundation to deliver Legal Wellbeing to our clients.
A following is preferable but not essential provided you can demonstrate a plan to build new relationships and develop existing ones.
Some key areas of expertise are as follows:
- Lasting Powers of Attorneys & Issues on Mental Capacity.
- UK and international tax planning.
- Creation of both domestic and offshore trusts.
- Asset Protection in relation to Care Home Fees, Divorce, Bankruptcy.
- Declarations of Trust for joint property owned in unequal shares.
- Inheritance issues both in the UK and internationally.
- Preparation of Wills for both international and UK-based clients.
- Estate related tax advice for both international and UK-based clients.
- Post-death tax planning.
- Administration of estates including those with assets in a number of jurisdictions and those involving international conflicts of law.
- Managing and building relationships with clients and introducers.
- Supervising paralegals, trainees, and support staff.
Since inception, Laurus has quickly gained a reputation for excellence and work with London's most reputable estate agents, brokers, IFAs, some pre-eminent investors, developers, house builders, and the high net worth.
We use a people-first approach, putting clients at the centre and building a professional, entrepreneurial culture from within. Our expertise goes beyond understanding the law and acting upon it – it’s giving our clients the confidence of having us by their side, when it matters most.
To us, that’s Legal Wellbeing.