Our
Disputed Wills, Trusts and Estates team is one of the leading private wealth
disputes groups across the UK. Our multiple award-winning department and people
are ranked across both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 for their
specialist expertise in contentious trusts and estates work. This is therefore
an excellent opportunity to develop your career in a market-leading contentious
trusts and probate team and work alongside Partners David McGuire and Matthew Morton,
who are both ranked leaders in this field.
Our
team has experience in some of the most high-value and complex disputes in the
country, extending to multi-jurisdictional disputes and including reported
cases such as the landmark case of Illot v Mitson and other reported cases
including Singh v Kaur and Others [2011] and Nahajec v Fowle [2017]. We have
specialist expertise in will
validity claims and challenges, trust disputes, claims involving the
administration of estates, proprietary estoppel, Inheritance Act claims,
professional negligence claims and disputes involving trustees, executors and
beneficiaries. We are regularly instructed by high net worth individuals,
landowners, executors, beneficiaries and trustees, trusts, local authorities,
charities and charitable trusts, community interest companies, solicitors,
financial advisors and accountants.
Our
team is supported by a national network with offices in Birmingham, Cardiff,
Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, London, Newcastle and Nottingham, giving us national
coverage for private client services. We are also supported and complimented by
a number of non-contentious specialist STEP qualified lawyers and a specialist
Court of Protection team. As part of a full service firm, we are able to
provide top quality private client advice alongside essential corporate,
employment, tax and property advice and support.
This
is a chance to join a specialist and experienced team exclusively working in
the contentious probate arena and handling a wide variety of work types within
that sphere.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Assisting
the partners with their caseloads
- Pro-actively
manage your own caseload with supervision
- Draft
and perform legal research, investigations, etc
- Attend
conferences, court and client meetings
- Communicate
with clients, counsel and other parties
- Involvement
in business development (ConTrA, ACTAPS, STEP, NCPG etc) and profile raising
initiatives as well as alignment to relevant segment/sector groups
- Preferably
work across our Manchester/Liverpool offices directly reporting to David McGuire but
also attend the firm’s other offices as necessary from time to time
- Complete
client and internal MI procedures
- Achieve
set financial and chargeable targets
- Ensure
relevant deadlines, quality measures and KPIS are adhered to
- Comply
with relevant policies and procedures
- Work
in accordance with Weightmans’ values
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