Job Description

A Legal 500/UK Top 100 firm are looking for a technically excellent private client lawyer to join their outstanding team in Leeds City Centre.
As a minimum, you need to be 8 PQE and have significant experience in dealing with complex private client issues with businesses and individuals of high net worth. The caseload will include a variety of complex wills, trusts, estate planning, cross border matters, inheritance tax mitigation, admin of estates and powers of attorney.
Joining the team as a Managing Associate or Legal Director, you will have real autonomy, and will be trusted to get on with doing what you do best which is delivering exceptional service to clients and winning new business through BD and referrals.
The team is relatively small in Leeds at the moment (2 partners, 1 associate and a new paralegal joining soon) but there are plans for this to continue growing organically with the success of the team, like in other city offices.
The firm itself is a large full service, but with the feel of a smaller firm. As Gold Investors In People, they pride themselves on making sure that employees are looked after and provide real support for progression to make sure people are achieving their career goals.
To discuss the role in more detail, please reach out to me here:
jennifer.crowther@qedlegal.com
07359 554471
Company
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Partner moves - both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on's
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions - placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves - focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves - lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals - FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA - regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers

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