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PQE: 3 years + Term: Permanent Working hours: Full time/Part time Department: Private Client Location: Chelmsford The Firm

Tees Law is a Top 200 UK law firm, with over 400 dedicated professionals across our six offices. We offer expert legal services and independent financial advice to a wide range of clients, including individuals, businesses, professional partnerships, charities, schools, multi-academy trusts, and national corporations.

Founded in 1913, Tees has grown from a traditional family firm with strong community roots into a modern, forward-thinking practice. Our vision is simple: to be the firm of choice for delivering exceptional service.

At Tees, we believe in open, honest, and empathetic communication. No matter how complex the situation, we offer clear, long-term solutions tailored to each client’s needs. Drawing on over a century of experience, we proactively anticipate challenges and share insights to help our clients achieve a better future.

Our goal is not only to support our clients but to build brighter futures for them, their businesses, and their families.

The Department

At Tees we are renowned for our specialist Private Client team. The Team advise on the preparation of wills, wealth protection and inheritance tax planning, the administration of complex estates, inheritance, and trust services and on all elderly client matters. Our team provides the whole range of complementary private client services to individuals, with high-quality advice in family matters, litigation, property, conveyancing, and regulatory areas.

The Role

• Providing clients with high quality, proactive legal advice, which meets client needs.
• Responsible for managing a mixed caseload of client matters subject to appropriate supervision.
• Achieving the firm’s fee targets and assisting and enabling others in the team to do so. Managing own time effectively to facilitate cash flow and credit-management systems, such as time recording, lock-up, cash flow, profitability and billing.
• Delivering legal services in a manner which is cost-efficient for both the client and the firm. Using technology to enhance performance.
• Enhancing the firm’s reputation and position within the community by developing a professional reputation, participating in professional and community activities to support the firm.
• Contributing to the firm’s general marketing initiatives by participating in firm’s marketing events including networking, seminars and writing marketing material.
• Assist Senior Lawyers with their caseload and develop own portfolio of clients.
  
  

Private Client Services

Specifically in the area of private client services, advice and support might include:

• Drafting wills.
• Preparing Lasting Powers of Attorney and advising generally on client issues including Deputyships and other Court of Protection applications. Being sympathetic to the particular needs of elderly clients.
• Advising clients on basic Inheritance Tax Planning, including Inheritance Tax exemptions and reliefs.
• Advising clients on the wider implications of any transactions or advice, having sought advice from senior team members.
• Dealing with the administration of estates including intestacy with minimal supervision.
• Supporting the senior members of the team in their caseloads including running their cases during periods of absence and carrying out functions on their cases.
• Keeping up to date with developments in Private Client law.
• Undertaking any other reasonable duties from time to time allocated to the role.
  
  

Other Information

• An attractive salary
• Discretionary payments
• Birthday holiday
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays with entitlement increasing with length of service
• Compassionate leave
• Employee assistance programme through Health Assured (including Counselling sessions, 24/7 access to trained Counsellors, Health Assessments, 4-week wellness programs, and more)
• Contributory pension
• Discounted legal services
• Discounted financial advice services
• Life assurance
• Permanent health insurance
• Interest free season ticket and travel loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care
• Access to a discount platform that includes special rate cinema tickets, shopping discounts and free treats from Cafe Nero and Greggs
• Discounted gym membership
• Social events throughout the year
• Payment for professional memberships and development opportunities
• A day’s leave per year to undertake Volunteer Day
• The opportunity to become involved with firm initiatives such as the Tees Better Future Fund and the ESG project.
  
  

If you are ambitious, driven, and want to work with a firm focused on helping give our clients a better future, then you are aligned in our aim to achieve that and empower you to be your absolute best. You will have a blended working schedule, giving you the freedom to arrange your days to benefit your commitments - in and out of the office. We understand that both the big and small details are important and believe that rewarding staff for their contributions and investing in their future is vital to the growth of our firm.

At Tees, diversity and inclusion are the heart of our vision for a better and more equitable future. We embrace diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, and socioeconomic background. We recognise that by embracing diversity, we can harness the collective power of our employees and create a culture that promotes collaboration, empathy, and understanding.

By prioritising diversity and inclusion, we believe that we create a more innovative, creative, and compassionate workplace. Our diverse perspectives lead to better problem-solving and enhanced decision-making, enabling us to better serve our customers and make a positive impact.

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