Solicitor - Private Client

About Gilson Gray

Gilson Gray is a multi-award-winning full-service law firm with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Forfar, East Lothian, Perth, Lincoln and London. We offer expert legal, property and financial services. Alongside our legal teams, our property division is made up of experienced Estate Agency and Lettings professionals who guide clients through every stage of buying, selling, letting, and managing property. Our financial services division brings together experts in financial planning and wealth management, allowing us to deliver joined-up advice and personalised solutions tailored to each client's goals and circumstances.

Founded in 2014 as a bold challenger to the traditional legal market, we executed the largest full-service launch in sector history. Now a multi-award-winning firm and one of the UK's fastest-growing legal practices, we bring together top legal talent to deliver commercially astute, cost-effective, and technically excellent solutions. Our innovative approach and client-first ethos continue to redefine industry standards, cementing our position as a true market leader.

We are one of the UK's most prominent law firms. We've achieved this by being different.

Different people. Different approach. Different results.

The Role

We are currently recruiting for an English-qualified Private Client Solicitor or Partner to help grow our established Private Client team, based in either our London or Lincoln office. This is a new role and offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Private Client Solicitor to play a key part in developing our English private client offering.

Our Private Client team provides advice on all aspects of private client work, including wills and succession planning, probate & estate administration, trusts, lasting powers of attorney and related tax matters. We are looking to expand our existing capability through the appointment of a solicitor qualified in England and Wales with experience in Private Client work.

Advising across a broad range of Private Client matters under the law of England and Wales, with particular emphasis on:

• Drafting Wills and advising on succession and estate planning
• Probate and estate administration, including the administration of complex and taxable estates
• Inheritance Tax and lifetime tax planning, including advice on available exemptions and reliefs
• Asset protection and succession planning, including the creation and use of trusts
• Trust creation, administration and management
• Lasting Powers of Attorney, including the preparation and registration of Lasting Powers of Attorney; and
• Court of Protection matters, including applications for deputyship where appropriate.

This is a full-time position based in either London or Lincoln, although consideration will also be given to part-time and flexible working arrangements.

The Team

We are looking for candidates who are confident working independently, commercially minded and keen to establish and develop strong relationships within their local professional and business community. The successful candidate will contribute to the financial success and continued growth of the Private Client team and wider firm by meeting agreed targets and playing an active role in business development and marketing.

Candidates will be expected to work collaboratively with members of the Private Client team and colleagues across the wider firm, including working virtually across our office network, and to work closely with the senior management team.

About You

Applications are invited from Solicitors qualified in England and Wales with relevant Private Client experience, ideally STEP qualified or working towards such qualification.

We are open to candidates at different levels of seniority, including experienced solicitors and candidates at or approaching Partner level. For more senior candidates, there will be significant scope to develop the practice, build professional and referral relationships and contribute to the strategic growth of our Private Client offering in England.

From a more senior candidate, we would also expect experience of managing their own caseload, developing client and professional relationships, generating new work and contributing to the growth of a Private Client practice.

We believe this is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to develop their career within a supportive, ambitious and growing firm. A competitive salary and benefits package will be offered, with an appropriate remuneration structure for a Partner-level appointment

Benefits

• A competitive salary with annual review and performance-based bonus
• Private Medical Insurance
• Great prospect of progress for the right candidate
• 25 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays, increasing after 4 years' service
• Birthday off
• 4 x Death in Service Benefit
• Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
• Eye test vouchers
• Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity pay
• Company sick pay
• Wellbeing initiatives and access to an online Health Provider