Job Description
🔎 The Role
My client is seeking a Senior Contentious Probate Lawyer to lead on high-value, sensitive, and often multi-jurisdictional estate disputes. This is a key hire within a growing team, offering genuine scope for progression and autonomy.
You’ll be advising high-net-worth individuals, executors, trustees, and beneficiaries on a wide range of contentious probate matters including:
- Challenges to the validity of wills
- Inheritance Act claims
- Executor/Trustee disputes
- Claims involving undue influence or lack of capacity
- Disputes over lifetime gifts and trusts
✅ The experience and skills you will be able to offer
- 7+ years’ PQE with a strong track record in contentious probate
- STEP/ACTAPS membership or working towards it (desirable)
- Exceptional technical knowledge and commercial acumen
- Confident handling complex lit...