Contentious Probate Solicitor 3-5 PQE

An exclusively contentious probate litigation role to join our highly regarded Will Disputes & Contentious Probate team.

Our Will Disputes & Contentious Probate team deals with a wide range of contentious probate matters with the team working closely with our Wills, Trusts and Estates team.

Rarely for this area the work will be exclusively contentious probate litigation. The day to day caseload involves the full range of contentious probate matters including Inheritance Act claims for Claimants and Defendants, claims involving challenges to the validity of Wills, executor/administrator disputes (including removal of executor applications), estate administration disputes, Court of Protection disputes as well as the various types of trust disputes. You will be expected to run your own cases, as well as work with colleagues on large cases all whilst benefitting from supervision and support from the Head of our Will Disputes & Contentious Probate team who is rated as one of a small number of Leading Individuals by Legal 500 for contentious probate in the South East. You'll also work together with other colleagues within the contentious and non-contentious teams.

The candidate for this role will have 3-5 years of civil litigation experience including contentious probate work and ideally have had some experience of contentious probate and non-contentious private client work during their training contract or early career, but we welcome applications from any junior solicitor with litigation and contentious probate experience who is keen to work in a successful growing team in this specialist area.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a burgeoning practice and develop a long term career in this specialist area. You'll need to be able to hit the ground running so you must be able to demonstrate at least one year's pqe as a solicitor (or equivalent) in civil litigation work - which should include a significant amount of contentious probate work.

You'll be part of an extremely friendly and welcoming team with an impressive client base and we'll help you to grow your skills and develop your own reputation in the area. There are strong prospects for career advancement and our firm has a clear track record on promoting people based on merit with rapid advancement based on performance and ability.

As a firm it is always important to us to nurture and support our people and this year we have invested heavily to support remote working. We have also introduced many adjustments to our premises to ensure a safe working environment for those who need/want to be in the office. Over the longer term we are committed to embracing a continued degree of home working and more flexibility in working arrangements to support our people with their changing lifestyles and expectations.