Private Client Counsel

LJW Solutions; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Productivity bonuses

UHNW client base

Established national platform

Comprehensive benefits

Senior role in Private Client group

Job summary

National law firm in Chicago seeks an experienced Private Client / Trusts & Estates Attorney to join our Private Client practice. The role focuses on sophisticated tax-focused estate planning for high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, and closely held businesses.

You will advise on wealth-transfer strategies, trust and estate administration, fiduciary tax, and family-office matters, drafting complex estate-planning documents and guiding trustees and executors.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of estate planning experience
• Strong tax-focused trusts and estates practice
• HNW and UHNW client experience
• Estate, gift and GST tax expertise
• Sophisticated wealth-transfer planning experience
• Trust and estate administration experience
• Strong client relationship skills

Responsibilities

• Advise private clients on estate, gift and GST tax planning
• Develop wealth-transfer strategies for high-net-worth individuals and families
• Manage trust and estate administration matters
• Counsel trustees and executors on fiduciary duties and taxes
• Draft sophisticated estate-planning documents for complex estates
• Address family-office needs and closely held business succession planning

Skills

Estate planning

Tax-focused trusts

HNW clients

Wealth transfer planning

Client relationships

Job description

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an experienced Private Client / Trusts & Estates Attorney to join an established Private Client practice within a highly regarded national law firm in Chicago.

The position is suited to an attorney with a sophisticated, tax-focused trusts and estates practice advising high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices and closely held businesses.

The Role

You will advise sophisticated private clients on matters including:

• Estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax.
• Wealth-transfer strategies.
• Trust and estate administration.
• Family-office matters.
• Business succession planning.
• Closely held businesses.
• Fiduciary income tax.
• Advising trustees and executors.
• Drafting sophisticated estate-planning documentation.

About You

The successful candidate will possess:

• 9+ years' estate planning experience.
• A strong tax-focused trusts and estates practice.
• HNW and UHNW client experience.
• Estate, gift and GST tax expertise.
• Sophisticated wealth-transfer planning experience.
• Trust and estate administration experience.
• Strong client relationship skills.

What’s on Offer?

• Productivity and discretionary bonuses.
• Sophisticated HNW and UHNW client base.
• Established national law firm platform.
• Comprehensive health, insurance and retirement benefits.
• Senior role within an established Private Client group.