Cross Border/Bilingual Associate - Private Client

Cross-Border/Bilingual Associate – Private Client

The Role

We are looking for an ambitious, professional English qualified Associate to join our large and expanding Private Client team based in Putney.  Candidates also qualified in another jurisdiction are welcome to apply too.

The candidate should ideally be around 2 years + PQE (although we will consider all levels) with excellent academics (ideally 2:1 or equivalent). Speaking a fluent foreign language is considered an advantage. 

The candidate should be highly motivated and demonstrate experience of a wide range of private client work, with a keen desire to develop their knowledge and practice specifically for cross-border and private international law work.  The caseload would include all the variety of private client work, and expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas would be a bonus: trusts, tax, mental capacity, cross border work. STEP qualification or tax focused qualifications, such as ATT, will be strongly supported. 

In addition to the provision of technically expert legal advice, the candidate will be expected to take responsibility and ownership of their work and clients, engage in proactive financial management of their matters, engage in business development and marketing to build their own network and bring in instructions, and work towards developing their management skills, with a view to progressing within the firm.

The Private Client team at Russell Cooke has a well-established reputation and broad experience over the entire sector. The team is well known for its Cross-Border expertise in international matters and includes dual French, Italian and Spanish qualified teams. This role will involve working with those teams and assisting clients with, for example, foreign property and private client matters.

This role is based in our Putney office and candidates should live within reasonable travelling distance of the office.  Attendance at our other offices in Holborn (8 Bedford Row) and Kingston will depend on client need or meetings with referrers.

Technical skills and expertise

Main Duties:

• Proactive conduct of own caseload
• Strong focus on business development to bring your own work
• Excellent financial management
• Participation in firm wide events

Client Relations:

• To provide a high-quality service to all Russell Cooke clients
• To independently develop and maintain good client relationship skills, gaining clients’ confidence and that of other professionals
• Receive requests for advice from current and potential clients and deciding on the most appropriate responses to make to these requests
• Establishing a plan to solve a client’s problems

Qualifications & Experience           

• Degree level 2:1 and ideally commendation at LPC level
• Working towards qualification of a relevant professional body such as STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) or ATT
• Highly numerate, IT literate, with excellent working knowledge of Excel. 

Your career development

Russell Cooke’s lawyers are rounded professional advisers with strong commercial awareness and a commitment to exceeding client expectations. All our lawyers benefit from our cohort-based career development programme to allow for the building of an internal network and allow our lawyers to work together across practice areas and share their knowledge, experiences and networks.

At each stage of your career, a bespoke training programme will be provided to support you with your development and progression.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. 

We prefer direct applications. If you would like any further information, please contact a member of the HR team.

We have a diverse workforce and aim to attract high calibre applicants who reflect the demography of our geographical location and client base. Individuals will be employed solely on merit and the requirement of the position. No applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, race, marital status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender Identity or religion. Reasonable adjustments will be made to eliminate or reduce disadvantage.