London, United Kingdom
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This role would be to assist more senior members of the Probate team and partners in the legal section in administering our clients’ estates, and to support the department generally at an administrative level. The role may include a pathway to qualification as a chartered legal executive. General day-to-day duties will include assisting with: * estate administration work, including the collection of assets and identification of liabilities, dealing with third parties such as banks, accountants, valuers and financial institutions to obtain date of death valuations via correspondence/telephone calls as required, applications for grants of probate and letters of administration, formalities as required during the administration period, preparation of estate accounts, and dealing with estate tax reporting and compliance matters; and * the general administrative work of the Private Client Department, to include onboarding new clients and the associated file opening and compliance work, scanning, notetaking, and preparing preliminary drafts of letters, emails and other documents, dealing with enquiries and taking and relaying messages, maintaining orderly files and papers, electronic filing, as well as closing and archiving files.
