Research / PR / Private Client Lawyer Devon

We are looking to fill a Research, Marketing, Public Relations & Private Client Support Lawyer job vacancy in Devon.
Salary - £30-60K

We have been retained to find the following legal professional.

The position is a specialist one, possibly for a lawyer coming to the end of their career, looking for a less taxing and stressful role.

A lawyer looking to specialise in the four above business sectors – Research, Marketing, PR and Private Client Support.

Alternatively a lawyer with one year’s plus private client experience, looking to enter a very successful and dynamic law firm.

The role is working in a highly successful private client department, based in Devon. The job will be to support the work of professional fee earners through knowledge- sharing, updating and maintaining of precedents, providing research and training where applicable. Assisting with business development and marketing function, services to clients, developing content for client seminars, development of extranets and client bulletins.

Private Client Lawyer - Devon, Somerset, Cornwall

We are currently looking to fill a Private Client Law job vacancy with partner potential within a team covering Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

Salary £40 to £120k.

We have been appointed to find a very experienced Private Client Lawyer.  

Our client is a very successful law firm, with offices based throughout the West Country.  This position may lead to the possible opportunity to make partner, within a fixed time frame. 

Ideally we seek a lawyer with significant experience operating and mid-senior career level. Solid experience is required working for a law firm with a significant Private Client team.  Must be a team player, who is client friendly, proactive and hard working. 

Accomplished at planning strategy programmes for business development.  Sound experience and knowledge of Will drafting and inheritance tax planning, estate administration, lasting powers of attorney, court protection and deputyship applications, issues affecting the elderly and trust law administration.

Specialisims: - IHT, CGT and other personal tax planning.  Lifetime settlements, Trust Law and administration including for disabled beneficiaries / personal injury compensation trusts and NHS continuing care claims.

Memberships: - STEP, Probate Section of the Law Society and Solicitors for the Elderly

The successful candidate will join a team that covers Cornwall, Somerset and Devon. There could be a definite opportunity for career progression to partner level, if required.

This position is open to both local and nationally based candidates.

To apply or for further details, please call 01872 274 227.


Related information: Law Firms Devon and Law Firms in Somerset UK.

Private Clients Group Manager

We have a job vacancy for a Manager / Future Partner - “Head of Private Clients Group” at a leading law firm in Cornwall – £60-150K +
Our client, a local Cornish “blue chip” - household name in the local business community, seek to appoint a Manager / Associate to head up Private Clients Business for all Cornwall based offices. Success in this appointment will lead to a Partnership opportunity and a substantial six figure remuneration package.
We seek to find a lawyer with thorough private clients experience in probate, wills and trusts. Additional experience and knowledge in tax and accountancy would be extremely interesting for our client but not essential.

Key areas of expertise will include: Contentious Probate, Tax Planning, Administration of Estates, Wills and Letters of Wishes, Personal Injury Trusts, Deputyships, Receiverships and Court of Protection work, Creating Department Systems – Developing file management systems, Professional man - management experience and high level marketing and client development capability in both Cornwall and Devon.
A fabulous opportunity for career relocation or an ambitious local lawyer.

Call 01872 274 227 for further info or to apply.

Lawyer and Barrister Job Vacancies

CER have barrister and lawyer job vacancies in Devon and Cornwall - £50k to £250k

We have law firm clients based in both Devon and Cornwall that seek professionals with the following experience:

Utilities, intellectual property, anti trust, asset management, finance, environment, insurance, pfi/ppp, private funds, projects, public policy, regulatory enforcement & white collar, restructuring and insolvency, marine conservation, tax, litigation, family law, private clients, property and agriculture.

Please telephone 01872 274227 for assistance seven days a week.

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Litigation Lawyer

Job vacancy for a Litigation Lawyer 30-150K, “2-4/4/12 PQE”.
Civil, Commercial and or Private Client

Our client an expanding law firm with work coming from a variety of sources, both locally and
nationwide, seek to employ both a junior and senior civil commercial litigation lawyer. Prospects are excellent as our client has offices based in both Cornwall & Devon.

Work experience should include: - Commercial disputes, owed money, contract disputes, landlord and tenant – trespass, nuisance, civil procedure and negligence etc…….
The litigation partner additionally invites applications from knowledgeable lawyers with private client contentious work experience. Wills, probate, tax, trusts, lasting powers of attorney, civil procedure rules, being a member of STEP, Law Society Probate will definitely interest our client.

Probate - Private Client Lawyer / FILEX

Contentious Probate – Private Client Lawyer 30 to 80K
Probate FILEX – 25 to 40K

The client an established Cornish law firm seeks to find both of the above professionals. The positions involve:

– Meeting with clients to discuss all aspects of the case or family legal action they are pursuing. Advising clients on all legal options available with regard of the case.

- Ensuring that the client understands which options are in their best interest.

- Mediating and negotiating with other lawyers, to resolve issues with regards to the pending legal case. Preparation and overseeing legal proceeding.

- Filing court documents and completing paperwork as it pertains to the case. Attending court proceedings to represent clients on legal issues.

- Networking with other lawyers and legal executives to expand customer base.

Ideally candidates will or could have both onshore and offshore experience.

Work experience should include some of the following: Tax planning, capital gains tax, income tax, trust estate planning, nil rate band planning and all loan arrangements, lasting powers of attorney, power of attorney issues, trust and IHT planning, migration, deeds of variation, EPA’s, receivership issues, administration of estates – “taxable and non taxable”. Setting up of wills and advising, contesting of unfair wills, care for the elderly, avoiding home care fees, local authority funding. Membership of STEP fantastic but not essential.

50% of clients are HNI’s – partnerships, LLP’s, entrepreneurs and farmers. Partnership prospects are available for the right applicant.

Private Client Lawyer - Devon

2 years + PQE 30 to 90K - We have just taken a new instruction from one of the major law firms based in Devon. They seek a private client’s lawyer and are open to the level of seniority of this appointment.

Ideally we seek a professional with high skill levels regarding contentious probate and asset protection work incorporating trusts, powers of attorney and estate planning. Good knowledge of pensions, tax, financial planning, drafting of complex wills, winding up of high-net-worth-estates, valuations of chattels, property, farmlands and landed estates, preparation of estate accounts, estate planning in relation to inheritance possibly incorporating trusts, capital tax planning using trusts. Thus, you will be offering your clients a “seamless” service as private client lawyer and trust advisor.

Your portfolio of clients will range from small business owners to generations of high-net-worth-families. A pro-active approach is required for marketing, acquisition and retention of HNC’s. Member of STEP and Care for the elderly is ideal.

Related details - Law Firms Devon UK.

Private Client Lawyer - Partner / Assistant Partner

£100K+ salary - Busy law firm with private client department housing over 16,000 wills, plenty of contentious and non contentious probate work.

Additionally will drafting, inheritance tax planning, estate administration, power of attorney, court of protection and deputyship applications, issues affecting the elderly, trust law and administration including disabled beneficiaries, personal injury, continuing care, compensation trusts, membership of STEP, probate section of the law society and solutions for the elderly ideal.

Private Client Lawyer

£40-60K: Prestigious local law firm seek to appoint an ambitious PC lawyer. Good technical knowledge inc. - Private client general litigation and civil procedures work.

Will drafting, inheritance tax planning, estate administration, trust law, non contentious probate rules, claims against personal representations, family provision claims, equities trust law, IHT, CGT, personal tax planning, life term settlement, initiating powers of attorney, membership of the probate section of the law society, STEPS and ACTAPS desirable.

Private Client Lawyer - Wills Trust & Probate

Central Cornwall - £30-80K: We have been retained by one of Cornwall's most prestigious law firms who have a private client lawyer job vacancy for wills, trust and probate work.

Listed below is experience that our client requires. There is a future partnership opportunity for the right senior candidate. The salary listed above is only an indication of what could be offered; for the right senior candidate, the figures above can be doubled. Our client is the law firm that all local ambitious professionals would like to work for.

Experience required includes:
Estate planning in relation to inheritance tax, advanced computations and all administration regarding inheritance tax liabilities, enduring powers of attorney, cross-border taxation, trusts, pension issues, EPA's, codicils, letters of wishes, drafting wills, nil-rate-band discretionary trusts and trust wills, wills containing life interests. Drafting deeds of variation, deeds of appointed trustees, deed of disclaimer and indemnity for a retiring trustee, settled land act trusts, heritage property, gifts with reservation of benefit and pre-owned asset provisions, lifetime giving and inheritance, drafting executors oaths, grant of probate - preparation of IH200 accounts, winding up of high-net-worth estates, valuation of chattels, property and farmland, auction of property, distribution of estates, preparation of estate accounts, deeds of valuation to sever joint tenancies, registering powers of attorney with courts, running power of attorney and declaration of trust files, drafting and registering LPA's, drafting settlements, loan agreements, entering restrictions on property registers, testimony capacity issues, intestate estate files, cross-selling and marketing technical services to other law firms. IFA's and HNI's regarding probate tax and trust services.

Running evening seminars at IFA's and firms of Chartered Accountants, promoting and cross-selling employing law firm and all of its departments. Additionally the sort and complexity of work that the departments can complete for chartered accountants or IFA's clients.

This position is open to all candidates with the right experience both locally and on a nationwide basis.