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CommercialLondon law firm are looking for an experienced senior private client paralegal / legal executive to join their leading team. The team deals with a range of private client work including wills and probate, inheritance tax planning, private trusts, estate planning and Lasting Powers of Attorney. There will be extensive client interaction from day one and so you must have the confidence and dynamism to deal with the firm’s high profile client base.

A selection of duties will include:

• Drafting wills
• Putting together court bundles for contentious matters
• Drafting Lasting Power of Attorney documents and probate applications
• Court of Protection work
• Conducting legal research
• Liaising with Counsel and the Courts

It is essential that you have experience as a fee earner (senior paralegal or legal executive) in a private client team (a minimum of 12 months) and have exceptional organisational, client and communication skills. You must also be proactive in your work. An exceptional environment and plenty of scope for personal development in a very well-established and influential team.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.