Senior Associate (Private Client)

We are looking for an experienced Senior Associate to join our Private Client team.

This is a broad private client role for a lawyer who is comfortable taking ownership of matters, managing client relationships and working with a high degree of autonomy. The successful candidate will advise individuals, families, executors, trustees and other professional advisers on a varied range of Jersey and cross-border private client matters.
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The Role

The work will include:

• Wills, succession and estate planning.
• Jersey movable and immovable estate matters.
• Probate and estate administration, including complex and cross-border estates.
• Intestacies and succession issues.
• Lasting powers of attorney and other capacity-related matters.
• Executorships and related fiduciary work.
• Trusts and private wealth structuring.
• Domicile, residence and cross-border succession issues.
• Working alongside tax, trust and other professional advisers on wider private client planning.

As a Senior Associate, you will be expected to manage your own caseload and client relationships, provide clear and practical advice and recognise when complex or sensitive issues require Partner involvement.

You will also play an important role within the wider team, including supervising and supporting junior colleagues, contributing to the development of precedents and know-how and helping maintain high technical and client-service standards.
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About You

You will be a qualified lawyer with substantial relevant private client experience and the ability to operate confidently at Senior Associate level.

You should have:

• Strong private client technical knowledge.
• Experience in wills, succession, probate and estate administration.
• Excellent drafting and analytical skills.
• Sound professional and commercial judgement.
• The ability to manage matters independently and proactively.
• Confidence dealing directly with clients and professional advisers.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• An interest in developing client and intermediary relationships.
• Experience of Jersey law and cross-border private client work would be particularly valuable, although applications from suitably experienced lawyers from other common-law jurisdictions are welcomed.
• STEP qualification, or progress towards STEP, would be advantageous but is not essential.
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The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to take a senior role within a broad private client practice, working on interesting and often complex matters while developing long-term relationships with clients and professional intermediaries.

We are looking for someone who wants to take genuine responsibility for their work, contribute to the development of the team and play an active part in the continued growth of the Private Client practice.

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Details

Department: Private Client

Location: Jersey

Level/Salary range: Market

HR Contact: Alison Gates (Practice Manager)

Qualifications Required: Lawyer

Reporting to: Head of Private Client

Position Type: Full time (35 hours)

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To apply, please send your CV together with a short covering letter explaining why you would like to join the BCR Group and what you feel you could bring to our team, to alison.gates@bcrlawllp.com or fill in the below form.

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