An opportunity has arisen for an Interim Legal Counsel (Probate & Estate Administration) to join an award winning In-House Legal team on a fully remote basis.
You will be an experienced Probate Lawyer with Estate Administration experience (Probate itself is not carried out In-House) and provide quality assurance checks for the organisations Wills product.
Your daily duties will include:
- Professional executorship duties - Where the organisations Trustees is appointed as professional executor under a Will, you will lead on carrying out their professional duties.
- Provide legal input into the organisations Probate product quote flows, landing pages, product guides, marketing materials, call scripts.
- Provide Probate team training on topics such as estate administration, valuing estates, and regulatory changes so that they are well-equipped to talk to customers about the product.
- Advise where necessary on quality assurance by checking Wills written by the Will writing specialists for accuracy and compliance with legal requirements.
- Risk management - Work closely with Head of Legal to continuously identify, manage, and mitigate risk across the business.
- Be the day-to-day point of escalation for questions/issues related to Probate from across the business.
- Disputes Wills - Dealing with Larke v Nugus requests and other queries related to disputed Wills.
You will be a qualified Solicitor / Legal Executive and STEP qualification would be advantageous.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking consumer legal tech business on an interim basis and work alongside a friendly and welcoming team.
The organisation works on a hybrid model and attend the office once a month, however, for this role they are open to fully remote working.
Initially working on a 3-6 month interim contract basis.
The role is paying a competitive salary and offers the opportunity of a permanent position.
For more details regarding this role or to apply for this role please contact Bianca Gibbs at Chadwick Nott's Bristol Office.
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*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.