Senior Solicitor

ZEDRA Group; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Manager to join its dynamic legal team. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide high-quality legal support in trust and estate matters. The successful candidate will be instrumental in delivering legal advice, drafting essential documents, and ensuring compliance with legal standards. With a focus on private clients and fiduciary duties, this position promises a rewarding career path within a collaborative environment. If you are a qualified lawyer with a passion for client service and a strong background in trust law, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years PQE in private client and trust law.
• Experience advising on trusts, estates, and tax compliance.

Responsibilities

• Drafting Wills, LPAs, and trust documents.
• Providing legal advice to clients and colleagues.
• Ensuring accuracy in estate administration tasks.

Skills

Trust Law

Estate Administration

Will Drafting

Lifetime Planning

Legal Advice

Education

Qualified Lawyer (5+ years PQE)

Member of STEP (preferred)

Job description

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Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Manager

As part of the ZEDRA group, ZEDRA Legal Services (ZLS) is an Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) regulated business.

ZLS provides legal support to ZEDRA’s UK Trust Company (ZTC) on a solicitor/client basis. ZTC is a trust corporation and is appointed as professional trustee of over 2,000 trusts and as the executor of over 60,000 Wills as professional attorney for finance and property in numerous Enduring and Lasting Powers of Attorney. As Senior Solicitor, you will support ZTC in its role as a professional fiduciary through the provision of legal advice and drafting.

ZLS has a large probate team, which performs estate administration work for lay and professional Personal Representatives. You will support ZLS colleagues involved in estate administration through the provision of legal advice and drafting.

ZLS also provides private client and estate planning services to a broad range of external private clients requiring lifetime tax planning and structuring, Wills, LPAs, Deeds of Variations and other private client services. They also work with key intermediaries who refer this work to us.

Key Accountabilities

General

The main function of the role is as a fee earning member of the legal team charging either the internal ZEDRA companies for advice or drafting as well as supporting colleagues who act for individual clients referred to them through a network of intermediaries or through internal business development staff.

Client

The successful candidate will be part of a team that delivers a high-quality service to ZTC and non-ZEDRA private clients. They will be required to liaise directly with ZTC staff and will provide advice and guidance in relation to the legal aspects of trusts and estates in which ZTC is appointed as trustee or PR. They will also support external facing ZLS colleagues by assisting in matters in which they provide private client advice and drafting to external, non-ZEDRA clients.

The role holder will ensure they deliver on commitments to agreed deadlines and to a high standard for specific trust cases both in their own files and when supporting ZLS colleagues in their matters.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Drafting including Wills, LPAs, lifetime trusts, Deeds of Variation, Deeds of Trust and Gift, as well as advice in respect of the same.
• Provision of discreet pieces of advice in terms of lifetime planning.
• Answering technical queries from colleagues in ZLS’s estate administration team
• Drafting documents to assist ZLS and ZTC in estate administration.
• Providing advice to ZTC in its capacity as trustee of a broad range of UK trusts, escrow agent, director and paying agent.
• Review of colleagues work to ensure accuracy.
• Assisting with the administration of non-standard assets
• Dealing with queries arising from enduring powers of attorney and lasting power of attorney
• Ensuring tax compliance, where required.

Knowledge and Experience

Professional and Technical Experience

The successful candidate will be a qualified lawyer 5+ years PQE working for a renowned trust and private client law or fiduciary firm. The successful candidate will have experience of advising private clients, trustees, settlors and beneficiaries in relation to trust and other fiduciary structures and the legal and tax regime in which they operate. Experience in will writing, estate administration, lasting and enduring powers of attorney and mental capacity issues is expected. The successful candidate must have a sound technical grounding but be capable of delivering work and advice in a commercial context.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

The role holder will be a qualified lawyer of 5+ years in a private client and trust law. Ideally the candidate will be a member of STEP or working towards it.

For more information or to request a copy of the full job description, please email [e-mail]

All agency emails and queries should be sent to [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal and Administrative

• Industries

  Financial Services, Professional Services, and Funds and Trusts

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