Hays
2 weeks ago
Wills & Estates Lawyer (2PQE)
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Company information
- Company
- Hays
- Location
- Australia, New South Wales, Sydney Region, Sydney, Sydney CBD Australia
- Posted
- 2 weeks ago
Job description
Your new company This is an opportunity to join a specialist boutique law firm (25+ staff) that advises a sophisticated client base of UHNWI including private investors, family offices, property owners and developers. The firm has built a strong reputation for providing strategic, commercial advice while maintaining a genuinely collaborative and supportive culture. Unlike larger firms, lawyers enjoy direct client access, meaningful responsibility and the ability to work closely with senior decision-makers. Acting for clients with substantial family wealth, extensive property holdings, private companies and trust structures, the firm offers exposure to some of the most sophisticated estate planning and succession matters in the market. Your new role An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate or Senior Associate to join a thriving Estate, Succession Planning & Probate practice in Sydney. Working directly with a highly experienced practitioner, and 3 other lawyers, you will advise high-net-worth individuals, family groups and private clients on a broad range of complex succession and wealth planning matters. Your work will include: * Complex estate and succession planning * Probate and estate administration * Drafting Wills and testamentary trust structures * Family and discretionary trust advice * Intergenerational wealth transfer and succession strategies * Asset protection and wealth preservation structures * Cross-border estate and succession matters * Powers of Attorney and Enduring Guardianships * High-value and complex deceased estates * Advising on complex family and beneficiary arrangements What you'll need to succeed * Experience in estate planning, probate and succession law * Strong technical knowledge of trusts and wealth structuring * Experience advising high-net-worth individuals, families or business owners * Excellent drafting, communication and stakeholder management skills * Strong commercial awareness and attention to detail * The ability to build trusted client relationships and manage complex matters * A collaborative approach and willingness to work closely with other practice groups * Leadership potential and a desire to mentor junior lawyers and support staff What you'll get in return * Exposure to sophisticated estate planning and succession matters for high-net-worth clients * Direct access to experienced senior practitioners and decision-makers * Significant client responsibility and relationship management opportunities * The opportunity to work closely with accountants, financial advisers and family offices * A collaborative and supportive team environment * Genuine leadership and career progression opportunities * Exposure to matters spanning trusts, commercial structures, property and private wealth * High-quality work typically associated with larger private client practices * Competitive remuneration aligned with experience * A long-term platform to build recognised expertise in private client and succession law What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. #3015222
Required skills
- attention to detail
- mentoring
- communication skills
- relationship management
- collaborative culture
- accountants
- career progression
- remuneration
- stakeholder management
- client relationships
- property owners
- team environment
- collaborative approach
- asset protection
- succession planning
- technical knowledge
- senior associate
- solicitor
- drafting skills
- developers
- lawyer
- supportive culture
- cv
- support staff
- associate
- commercial awareness
- career
- strategic advice
- expertise
- powers of attorney
- wills
- probate
- trusts
- private clients
- estates
- leadership potential
- commercial structures
- high-net-worth individuals
- complex matters
- private wealth
- wealth structuring
- estate planning
- trust structures
- wealth planning
- family offices
- business owners
- private companies
- private investors
- junior lawyers
- uhnwi
- commercial advice
- financial advisers
- senior decision-makers
- practice groups
- confidential discussion
- succession strategies
- senior practitioners
- client responsibility
- direct client access
- meaningful responsibility
- family wealth
- property holdings
- family groups
- testamentary trust structures
- family trust advice
- discretionary trust advice
- intergenerational wealth transfer
- wealth preservation structures
- cross-border estates
- enduring guardianships
- deceased estates
- beneficiary arrangements
- private client practices
- private client law
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