Associate Solicitor- Private Client Advisory- Leeds

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Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Solicitor to join our Private Client Advisory team in Leeds. This is a key role advising high net worth individuals and families on estate and succession planning, tax planning, and contributing to the continued growth of our private client offering. Our team is exceptionally busy, with a strong pipeline of high quality work, offering you the chance to step straight into a varied and rewarding caseload from day one. If you thrive in a successful, friendly, and high performing environment, this could be the ideal next step in your career. Our top tier Legal 500 Private Client team operates across multiple offices and forms part of a strong national practice, advising high net worth clients on all aspects of estate, tax, and succession planning. You will work closely with one of our expert Partners, Christine Thornley, and benefit from significant firmwide support to help you further develop your practice.

About You

• Strong experience in advising on, implementing, and managing complex wills, lifetime trusts, deeds of variation, powers of attorney, and estate administration.
• STEP qualified or working towards the qualification would be advantageous, but not essential.
• Strong ability to collaborate with other teams and external professionals.
• Business development aptitude and passion for building client and referrer relationships.
• Drive to support the growth and development of the wider team.
• Understanding of the Leeds market would be favourable.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - you can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days - two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.