Based in: Lewes

Full-time

Salary: £45,000 – £60,000

About Adams & Remers

We are a long established law firm with a professional, modern, client-centred approach. Delivering exceptional service to our clients is at the heart of everything we do.

We have an excellent reputation and have built strong, responsive and complementary practice areas that help private individuals, businesses and institutions in the UK and internationally. we have developed expertise in established and emerging sectors to ensure we offer the best specialist advice available.

We have offices in Lewes and London, with this role being based in our Lewes office (East Sussex). Across our practice areas of Commercial and Residential Property, Private Client, Litigation and Corporate and Commercial, we have 18 partners and a full team of around 100.

Our Private Client team, based in Lewes, advises UK and international private individuals including multi-generational families, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs and business professionals. We offer a full range of services including wills, inheritance, powers of attorney, trusts and probate, estate planning and tax.

We have top rankings for our Private Client team in Chambers High Net Worth Guide. Our lawyers also have personal top rankings across various legal directories. The team receives excellent feedback and reviews from clients, industry partners and referrers:

“Provides a Rolls-Royce service.”

“Excellent knowledge, extremely efficient and an absolute delight to deal with.”

We strongly believe in taking the time to get to know our clients – really listening and understanding what matters to them. Our team has specialist practitioners to ensure we can provide the best advice available. This commitment to personal service and offering the highest standards of advice is what encourages our clients to return to us time and again as their circumstances change. Creating and nurturing strong professional partnerships and referrer relationships are also key to our new business development.

The Role

 We are looking for a proficient fee earner to join this team to carry out:

• Estate planning, including preparation of Wills and advice on lifetime giving
• Advice on the creation, administration and termination of trusts
• Probate and Estate administration, including advising on Deeds of Variation
• Preparation of Lasting Powers of Attorney

Skills needed

 The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified solicitor with around 5 years’ PQE
• Experience/knowledge of taxation of trusts would be an advantage
• Be organised, adaptable and accurate
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Be professional with a client focused approach
• Have good time management skills with the ability to prioritise workloads
• Have excellent communication skills and willingness to ‘go the extra mile’
• Enjoy working as part of a team, but be self-motivated and able to work independently too
• Be flexible, resilient and able to handle change

Experience of managing or supervising junior members of the team would be an advantage

 Working for Adams & Remers

We fill our teams with people who are professional, motivated and reliable, and share our values and our determination to deliver the best possible experience for our clients.

To help you develop yourself and your role, we offer a friendly working environment with opportunities for training and development to help you strengthen your skills and expertise.

We have a strong focus on wellbeing and provide you with excellent support and resources.  Our friendly, welcoming team regularly organise social events to keep us connected.

The salary for the position is up to £45,000 to £60,000 a year depending on qualifications and experience.  We offer a very competitive benefits package including private medical insurance, discount vouchers, medical cash plan, virtual GP service and fitness and nutrition health checks.

 Applying

If you are interested in the role please send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@adamsandremers.com.