Private Client Senior Associate/Partner

yolk recruitment; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services firm in the UK is looking for a Senior Associate or Partner to join their esteemed Private Client team. The role offers the opportunity to shape the Bristol office with a focus on wills, trusts, and estates for high-net-worth clients. Candidates should have significant experience in Private Client work and a desire for leadership and long-term growth. The firm promotes professional development, offers competitive benefits, and fosters a collaborative culture.

Benefits

Private healthcare for you and your family

Life assurance (4 times salary)

Enhanced pension with 5% employer contribution

Additional leave for special occasions

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted legal fees on firm services

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Private Client: wills, trusts, succession, estates etc.
• Proven ability to manage complex portfolios and high-net-worth clients.
• Ambition for long-term growth, not just a stepping stone.

Responsibilities

• Mould, expand and lead the Bristol offering.
• Work on a broad range of private client matters.
• Handle complex probate and estate administration.

Skills

Experience in Private Client management

Ability to manage complex portfolios

Leadership mindset

Technical excellence

Commercial awareness

Job description

Opportunity: Senior Associate / Partner - Private Client

Location: Bristol (Hybrid Working)

Salary: Up to 130,000 + Bonus (DOE)

Are you a Private Client lawyer with real ambition? Want to join a highly ranked Legal 500 / Chambers-recognised team with strong reputation, stability and the freedom to shape the future? This could be the role for you.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Associate or Partner, you’ll enjoy autonomy and the platform to mould, expand and lead the Bristol offering with the full backing of a trusted national brand.

You’ll work on a broad range of private client matters, including:

• Wills, estate planning, and succession structures for High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth individuals and business owners
• Trust creation and administration, including cross-border and multi-jurisdictional trusts
• Complex probate and estate administration, including agricultural, landed, and business assets
• Tax and wealth protection strategies for high-value clients
• Court of Protection and capacity matters
• Contentious trusts and probate (if of interest, with internal support from ranked specialists)

The work is genuinely interesting, often with an international dimension and involving intricate family or commercial structures.

What Makes It Stand Out

• You’ll be joining a team rarely affected by churn - people stay, succeed, become leaders.
• Their reputation in the market is strong: praised in Legal 500 / Chambers for both non-contentious and contentious trusts / estates work.
• You’ll get backing from a firm with national reach, multidisciplinary support and a client base that includes ultra-high net worth individuals and complicated estate, trust and succession structures.

You won’t be boxed in - the role has flexibility, strategic influence, and the potential to evolve.

What You Will Get

Some of the perks (beyond the headline salary) include:

• Private healthcare for you and your family, and free healthcare cashback plans
• Life assurance (4 salary)
• Enhanced pension: matching 5% employer contribution
• Enhanced leave: additional days (birthday, Christmas Eve / New Year's Eve)
• Option to buy extra holiday (up to 5 days)
• Employee Assistance Programme, life event vouchers, wellbeing days, cycle-to-work, and more
• Discounted legal fees on firm services, free will options, independent financial advice
• And importantly: strong emphasis on development, internal promotion, collaborative culture and a firm ethos that encourages new ideas.

The Profile You Bring

• Significant experience in Private Client: wills, trusts, succession, estates etc
• Proven ability to manage complex portfolios and high-net-worth clients (including cross-border exposure) or a keenness to get exposure to this
• Leadership mindset: someone who wants to build, mentor, influence and leave a legacy.
• Technical excellence, commercial awareness and a warm but professional client presence.
• Ambition for long-term growth, not just a stepping stone.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.

Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.