Wills & LPA Lawyer/Manager
Job description
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Experienced Wiills & LPA Lawyer required for an in-house role based in Suffolk. If you have STEP and 5 years experience in this area of law along with managing and developing a team we would be delighted to hear from you. The key areas of responsibility include:
- Overseeing and dealing with all aspects of the will writing and power of attorney services.
- All matters in connection with estate administration
- Aassisting with the training and development of junior members of the Team.
- Providing technical help and support to other areas of the business.
Along with a competitive salary and flexible hybrid working, this in-house opportunity offers a superb benefits package.
If you would like to know more, please get in touch for a full job description and confidential chat.
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Application advice
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⭐ Place your STEP qualification prominently in your Personal Statement and qualifications section — the advert lists it as a key requirement alongside 5 years' experience.
📊 Quantify your team management experience: e.g. 'Managed and developed a team of 6 junior fee earners, reducing error rates by 20% over 12 months'.
🎯 Highlight in-house legal experience specifically, as this role is an in-house position — note any previous in-house roles separately from private practice.
🤝 Include a dedicated bullet on training and development of junior staff, referencing specific programmes or structured supervision you have delivered.
📋 Demonstrate breadth across all three service lines — will writing, LPA, and estate administration — as the advert explicitly requires oversight of all three areas.
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- •Managed end-to-end estate administration for 85 active probate matters annually, achieving an average grant of representation turnaround of 10 weeks against a 14-week team benchmark.
- •Supervised and developed a team of 4 junior fee earners in will drafting and LPA completion, reducing file review corrections by 30% within 6 months through structured fortnightly training sessions.
- •Drafted and executed over 150 Lasting Powers of Attorney per year, maintaining a 100% OPG registration success rate and zero client complaints across a 3-year period.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Private client law — specifically will writing, LPA, and estate administration — is where I have built my career over the past five years, and the in-house Wills & LPA Lawyer/Manager opportunity at your Suffolk organisation is a natural next step. My STEP qualification underpins a technically rigorous approach to complex estates, and I have direct experience overseeing all three service lines the role requires.
My background in private client law includes managing a team of junior fee earners, designing structured training programmes to raise technical standards, and providing legal support to non-legal business units. At my current firm, I supervise four junior lawyers across a caseload of approximately 200 active matters, maintaining compliance with all regulatory requirements whilst meeting client service targets.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How do you ensure will drafting complies with current legislative requirements, including the Wills Act 1837 and recent case law?
- ›Walk me through your process for completing a complex Lasting Power of Attorney, including any safeguarding considerations.
- ›What are the key stages of estate administration you have managed, and how do you handle contentious probate situations?
- ›How does your STEP qualification inform your approach to tax-efficient estate planning for clients?
- ›What systems or case management tools have you used to manage a high-volume private client caseload?
Behavioural
- ›Describe a time you identified a knowledge gap in your team and implemented a training solution to address it.
- ›Tell me about a situation where you had to manage a complex estate with competing beneficiary interests — how did you handle it?
- ›Give an example of when you provided technical support to a non-legal part of the business and how you communicated complex legal concepts clearly.
- ›Describe a time you managed competing deadlines across will writing, LPA, and estate administration matters simultaneously.
- ›Tell me about a junior team member you developed and the measurable impact your mentoring had on their performance.
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Describe a time you identified a knowledge gap in your team and implemented a training solution to address it.
Tell me about a situation where you had to manage a complex estate with competing beneficiary interests — how did you handle it?