About this role
At Moore SGD Law , our Private Client Legal team supports individuals and families with all aspects of estate administration, planning and asset protection. We provide clear, pragmatic legal advice across personal and business‑related estates, ensuring clients feel confident and supported at every stage. As part of the wider Moore Kingston Smith Group, we work closely with our Private Client Tax and Financial Advisory teams. While each team brings its own specialist expertise, our collaborative approach means clients benefit from a genuinely holistic service — and this role will play a key part in strengthening those connections. We are now looking for an experienced Director or Partner to lead and develop our Private Client Legal team . This is a standout opportunity to shape the direction of our private client legal offering, bring your own ideas and contacts, and influence how our private client proposition continues to evolve across Moore SGD Law and the broader MKS network. You will take a visible role in growing the practice, driving collaboration with colleagues across the Group, and expanding both your own and the firm’s client base. In addition to setting the strategic direction, you will play a hands‑on leadership role — supporting and developing junior lawyers, ensuring high standards of technical quality, and representing the team across the firm and in the market. Close supervision of junior members of the team, including regular one to one meetings to discuss workloads; give specific feedback on their work and their progress in their roles; Adherence to the firm’s “four-eyes” policy which entails reviewing in conjunction with another member of the team draft documents and correspondence sent to clients and third parties; Develop an internal network, in particular with the firm’s Private Client Tax and Financial Advisory teams as part of the firm’s holistic offering to clients; Advise the firm’s Trust Corporation and trust team on the legal aspects of administering trusts and interpreting historic trust deeds; Proactively manage the billing process by setting realistic fee estimates; agreeing revised fee estimates where applicable; identifying invoices to be raised each month; sending invoices to clients where appropriate; reviewing aged WIP; working with the credit control team to pursue outstanding invoices; and reviewing WIP provisions each month; Regularly checking the team’s probate pages on the firm’s website to ensure they conform to the SRA transparency rules; and Active participation in business development activities, including preparing comments and articles for the national press and professional publications; willingness to speak events such as seminars and webinars; and speak in videos to be posted on social media and on the firm’s website on various Private Client legal matters.