Associate - Private Client (5790)

We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it’s personal or business, we understand that everyone’s situation is different. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Solicitor to join our Private Client Advisory team in Birmingham. This is a key role advising high-net-worth individuals and families on estate and succession planning, tax planning, and contributing to the continued growth of our private client offering across the Midlands.

Our team is exceptionally busy, with a strong pipeline of high-quality work, offering you the chance to step straight into a varied and rewarding caseload from day one.

If you thrive in a successful, friendly, and high-performing environment, this could be the ideal next step in your career. Our top-tier Legal 500 Private Client team operates across multiple offices and forms part of a strong national practice, advising high-net-worth clients on all aspects of estate, tax, and succession planning.

You will work closely with one of our expert Partners, Jessica Beddows, and benefit from significant firmwide support to help you further develop your practice.

• Strong experience in advising on, implementing, and managing complex wills, lifetime trusts, deeds of variation, powers of attorney, and estate administration.

STEP qualified or working towards the qualification would be advantageous, but not essential.

Strong ability to collaborate with other teams and external professionals.

Business development aptitude and passion for building client and referrer relationships.

Drive to support the growth and development of the wider team.

Understanding of the Midlands market would be favourable.

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity.
  
  

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
  
  

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

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nt screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.