Solicitor
Description✓Wills & probate Solicitor
✓hybrid working 2 days in office
✓paying up to £48k
✓- JOB PURPOSE
✓To provide high quality legal advice to the firm’s clients and meet a financial target.
✓NE or 1-2 years PQE
✓- ORGANISATIONAL POSITION
✓Working in a team of 5 lawyers
✓Producing own typing & documents
✓Supported by the admin support team.
✓- ROLE OF DEPARTMENT
✓To provide legal advice and run cases relating to non contentious and legal work pertaining particularly to all aspects of wills & probate including –
✓- Wills
✓Drafting wills Terms and implications of wills
✓Tax liability Tax planning
✓- Probate
✓Winding up and administering estates
✓Preparing tax forms and probate accounts
✓Accurate and regular cost estimates and ensuring procedures for anti-money laundering are adhered to
✓Preparing Deeds of Variation
✓- Lasting Powers of Attorney and Deputyship orders
✓Preparation of, and advising clients on, and obtaining them
✓- Trusts
✓Drafting and advising on Trust Deeds
✓Client group- Private
✓This list is not exhaustive and subject to review as and when required by the Partners
✓- KEY RESULT AREAS
✓Providing legal advice and working to the Law Society, Lexcel, ISO, WIQS and Solicitors Regulation Authority standards.
✓Achieving a fee target as set out and agreed at the beginning of the financial year.
✓Working to the firm’s policies and procedures
✓Accurate and regular cost estimates ensuring proper procedures for anti-money laundering are adhered to
✓Accurate time recording
✓Accurate and regular billing and ensuring recovery of those charges
✓Winning new clients, marketing and profile building
✓- MARKETING
✓Building relationships with current and potential work referrers
✓Winning new clients for the firm
✓- ASSIGNMENT AND REVIEW OF WORK
✓Legal files will be reviewed by the Head of Department on a regular basis in line with the Law Society’s Lexcel Practice Management Standard
✓The firm requires you to deal with each transaction from commencement of the transaction to completion with minimum supervision
✓You will be required to work on a number of matters at any one time and manage the client’s expectations
✓You must close files and account to clients after the matter is concluded
✓- COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
✓Communicating with clients, beneficiaries of estates and other third parties in the course of working on their matter.
✓Communicating with the firm’s management team, your head of department, other lawyers and the support team and secretaries
✓Winning new clients for the firm
✓- PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS OF THE JOB
✓Working to deadlines whilst assessing and minimizing risk to the firm
✓Meeting an agreed financial target
✓Working in an open plan office in a team environment
✓- EQUIPMENT
✓Operating a desktop pc or surface pro.
✓- SYSTEMS
✓Working on Microsoft Windows, Outlook, Tikit, Oyez legal forms, the internet, Practical Law, Westlaw, Arken, HMCTS Online system Show more →
✓hybrid working 2 days in office
✓paying up to £48k
✓- JOB PURPOSE
✓To provide high quality legal advice to the firm’s clients and meet a financial target.
✓NE or 1-2 years PQE
✓- ORGANISATIONAL POSITION
✓Working in a team of 5 lawyers
✓Producing own typing & documents
✓Supported by the admin support team.
✓- ROLE OF DEPARTMENT
✓To provide legal advice and run cases relating to non contentious and legal work pertaining particularly to all aspects of wills & probate including –
✓- Wills
✓Drafting wills Terms and implications of wills
✓Tax liability Tax planning
✓- Probate
✓Winding up and administering estates
✓Preparing tax forms and probate accounts
✓Accurate and regular cost estimates and ensuring procedures for anti-money laundering are adhered to
✓Preparing Deeds of Variation
✓- Lasting Powers of Attorney and Deputyship orders
✓Preparation of, and advising clients on, and obtaining them
✓- Trusts
✓Drafting and advising on Trust Deeds
✓Client group- Private
✓This list is not exhaustive and subject to review as and when required by the Partners
✓- KEY RESULT AREAS
✓Providing legal advice and working to the Law Society, Lexcel, ISO, WIQS and Solicitors Regulation Authority standards.
✓Achieving a fee target as set out and agreed at the beginning of the financial year.
✓Working to the firm’s policies and procedures
✓Accurate and regular cost estimates ensuring proper procedures for anti-money laundering are adhered to
✓Accurate time recording
✓Accurate and regular billing and ensuring recovery of those charges
✓Winning new clients, marketing and profile building
✓- MARKETING
✓Building relationships with current and potential work referrers
✓Winning new clients for the firm
✓- ASSIGNMENT AND REVIEW OF WORK
✓Legal files will be reviewed by the Head of Department on a regular basis in line with the Law Society’s Lexcel Practice Management Standard
✓The firm requires you to deal with each transaction from commencement of the transaction to completion with minimum supervision
✓You will be required to work on a number of matters at any one time and manage the client’s expectations
✓You must close files and account to clients after the matter is concluded
✓- COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
✓Communicating with clients, beneficiaries of estates and other third parties in the course of working on their matter.
✓Communicating with the firm’s management team, your head of department, other lawyers and the support team and secretaries
✓Winning new clients for the firm
✓- PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS OF THE JOB
✓Working to deadlines whilst assessing and minimizing risk to the firm
✓Meeting an agreed financial target
✓Working in an open plan office in a team environment
✓- EQUIPMENT
✓Operating a desktop pc or surface pro.
✓- SYSTEMS
✓Working on Microsoft Windows, Outlook, Tikit, Oyez legal forms, the internet, Practical Law, Westlaw, Arken, HMCTS Online system Show more →
Features
- ✓Bonus + benefits