Senior Private Client Lawyer

Senior Private Client Lawyer – Founding Hire (UK-qualified)

Location: Hybrid (3 days pw in central London office) – flexible days

Jameson Legal is working on a unique opportunity for a Private Client Solicitor with 7+ years’ experience advising UHNW individuals across Wills, Trusts and Probate matters. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced candidate to join a Wealth Management company and help to build out a new legal offering for their clients. This is a strategic, team-building role.

About the role:

We’re building a new UK-facing legal offering for a high growth wealth-management group and hiring the first private client Lawyer to design and lead it. This is a hands-on role: you will advise on estate and wealth planning, set up processes and compliance, and help shape a legal team and proposition that supports high-net-worth and internationally connected clients.

Candidate Requirements:

• UK-qualified Solicitor with c-10+ years’ private client/estate planning experience.
• Grounded, pragmatic, and commercially-minded – enjoys practising law and building an offering.
• Exposure to international matters is a plus but not essential; cross-border exposure welcomed.
• Comfortable with regulatory responsibilities (COLP/HOLP may be required).
• Entrepreneurial: the role includes creating the practice and a clear path to lead the division and partnership track.

What you’ll get:

• Competitive base salary and quarterly bonus structure tied to origination and growth; meaningful upside for client origination.
• Hybrid working, collaborative team culture, and scope to build a distinctive UK legal practice with international reach.

For a confidential chat about this or other roles we are handling, please get in touch with Tom Shaw in our London office.

Please note that where a level of preferred experience or qualification is indicated, this is a guideline only and does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Our consultants will review your application and assess your suitability. We endeavour to respond to all applications within 72 hours, however due to the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to every candidate individually and would advise that if you do not hear from us you should assume you are not successful in your application.

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