Tax Attorney Advanced Tax Strategy and Structuring Counsel

GENWEALTH 360; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Bonus based on performance

Company parties

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Job summary

GENWEALTH 360 in Long Beach, California is hiring a Tax Attorney I to oversee legal aspects of advanced tax strategies, including entity structuring and wealth planning counsel. The role involves coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and ensuring compliance.

Ideal candidates will hold an active law license, possess 5+ years of relevant experience, and have the ability to draft legal documents for complex client scenarios. A competitive compensation plan includes a base salary ranging from $180,000 to $210,000 for experienced counsel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, estate, and business planning experience.
• Experience advising high-income professionals and family entities.
• Ability to coordinate with CPA and financial planning teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal review for tax planning structures.
• Draft legal documents related to governance and asset protection.
• Support complex client cases involving business owners and high-net-worth planning.

Skills

Strong drafting ability

Excellent client-facing communication skills

Knowledge of legal and tax alignment

Ability to operate within legal ethics

Education

Active law license

LL.M. in Taxation

Job description

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Bonus based on performance
• Company parties
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Vision insurance

Title

Tax Attorney I Advanced Tax Strategy, Entity Structuring, and Wealth Planning Counsel

We are hiring a tax attorney to provide legal oversight for sophisticated tax planning, entity structuring, estate coordination, asset protection, and implementation workflows. This role is designed for an attorney who can work inside a multidisciplinary planning platform while maintaining clear legal, ethical, and compliance boundaries.

What You Will Own

• Provide legal review and strategic oversight for advanced tax planning structures.
• Draft or review legal documents related to entities, governance, management agreements, succession, and asset protection.
• Coordinate with CPA, financial planning, insurance, and implementation teams.
• Support complex client cases involving business owners, physicians, family entities, and high-net-worth planning.
• Build internal legal standards, templates, documentation procedures, and risk controls.

Core Responsibilities

• Review entity structuring recommendations for legal and tax alignment.
• Draft or supervise drafting of operating agreements, management agreements, corporate governance documents, trust coordination documents, and implementation memos.
• Advise on tax-sensitive business structuring, estate coordination, asset protection, and inter-entity arrangements.
• Support client presentations when legal strategy is central to the engagement.
• Maintain boundaries between tax advice, legal advice, investment advice, and insurance recommendations.
• Coordinate with outside counsel where jurisdictional or specialty support is required.

Required Qualifications

• Active law license required.
• LL.M. in Taxation preferred but not required for attorneys with strong practical tax experience.
• 5+ years of tax, estate, business, asset protection, or closely held business planning experience.
• Experience advising high-income professionals, business owners, partnerships, S corporations, and family entities preferred.
• Strong drafting ability and excellent client-facing communication skills.
• Ability to operate within legal ethics, confidentiality, unauthorized-practice, and fee-sharing rules.

Compensation Plan

• Base Salary | $180,000 to $210,000 for experienced tax counsel; $275,000 to $350,000+ for senior counsel, director-level, or partner-level leadership.
• Annual Bonus | 15% to 30% of base salary, based on legal work quality, matter completion, risk management, client satisfaction, and team support.
• Matter Completion Bonus | $1,500 to $7,500 per significant legal structuring matter, depending on complexity and collected revenue.
• Origination Credit | Permitted only where legally and ethically compliant. Use law-firm-compliant origination credit rather than nonlawyer fee-sharing.
• Quality / Risk Gate | Bonus eligibility requires documented legal review, clean file standards, and no avoidable compliance breach.
• Career Path | Tax Counsel to Senior Tax Counsel to Director of Legal Strategy to General Counsel / Partner-Track Role.

This compensation structure is designed for tax counsel who can support advanced tax planning, legal structuring, implementation review, and risk management at a high technical level. The structure should reward not only completed matters, but also judgment, documentation quality, compliance discipline, and protection of the firm’s legal and ethical standards.

This role is for a tax attorney who can translate sophisticated strategy into defensible legal structure. You will work with a planning team serving physicians, entrepreneurs, and affluent families. The work is technical, client-facing, and implementation-driven. The standard is not merely whether a strategy sounds attractive; the standard is whether it can be documented, defended, and executed correctly.