Private Client Associate

Private Client Associate | 2+ PQE | Top 100 Firm | Bristol

A strong opportunity for a Private Client Associate to join a highly regarded team within a leading Top 100 firm.

What makes this particularly interesting is the firm's continued commitment towards investing heavily in its services to individuals. At a time when some firms in the Bristol market are placing greater emphasis on their corporate and commercial offerings, this firm continues to see Private Client as a core part of its long-term strategy.

This is a real opportunity to join a team with real momentum behind it, not one just holding its ground.

The Firm

This Top 100 firm has built its reputation on an industry led approach to legal services. Its lawyers develop a deep understanding of the sectors their clients operate in, which translates into advice that is sharper and more commercially useful than a purely technical answer.

Culture is where the firm is most consistently praised. The flexibility on offer is substantial and taken seriously rather than advertised, and people are trusted to find a balance that works for them. There is continual dialogue in both directions through staff surveys, training programmes and an active social scene, and processes change in response to what people say.

For a lawyer who wants quality work without the trade-offs that usually accompany it, this is a firm worth looking at properly.

The Role

You will join the firm's wider Private Capital team in Bristol, working on a top tier private client caseload for private individuals, farmers, entrepreneurs and other business owners. These are clients with diverse assets who need complex succession planning and wealth protection arrangements rather than standard estate planning.

The work is varied and you will have a good level of autonomy from the outset, working alongside experienced private client lawyers in an inclusive environment where developing your technical ability is taken seriously.

Your caseload will include:

• Estate planning advice and related wills and trust documents for high net worth, entrepreneurial and international clients

• Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney

• Inheritance tax and capital gains tax advice within estate planning

• Pre exit planning for business owners

• Creation, management and winding up of trusts, with a dedicated Trust Management team handling day to day compliance and administration

• Deeds of variation, including discretionary trust arrangements and loans

• Working alongside clients' financial planners across a broad range of financial products

Your Experience

• Private Client Solicitor at 2+ PQE

• Experience of complex succession planning and wealth protection for clients with diverse assets

• Highly meticulous, commercially focused and outcome orientated

• A track record in business development and outstanding client care

• STEP qualified or working towards it is advantageous, but not a prerequisite

Why This Role?

• The chance to join a practice that is actively investing in its individual client offering, at a time when the direction of travel is not the same across the Bristol market

• A varied, sophisticated caseload with a good level of autonomy from the outset

• Scope to build your own profile through business development

• Significant flexibility and a down-to-earth working culture

To find out more, contact Ollie Fearon at ollie@jmc-legal.com or call 07441 937638