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Senior Associate Attorney

Legacy Solutions Law Firm
Hollywood, FL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/20/2025

Job Description

Job Description

We are seeking a Sr. Attorney with substantial experience designing, managing, drafting, and implementing estate plans, trust administration, probate, and entity formation. A portable book of business is a plus but not required. This is primarily an in-office position with an opportunity for a hybrid schedule for the right candidate.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for your personal and professional growth within our organization. We’re committed to investing in our growing team and it starts with providing the training, resources, and growth opportunities for our attorneys and professional staff needed to advance their legal careers.

Benefits include PTO, Holidays, health, dental, and 401(k) Plan, paid bar membership, malpractice insurance, CLE training, and travel expenses as needed.

Compensation :

150,000 - $200,000 yearly

Responsibilities : Essential Duties :

Case Management

  • Manage probate administration files and staff from beginning to end (Guardianship experience is a plus)
  • Lead and oversee the estate planning process ideally with exposure to t special needs planning
  • Advise clients by understanding their needs, effectively analyzing their situation, and forming a strategy for a plan of action
  • Review, refine, and provide strategic input on legal documents.
  • Independently handle day-to-day decision-making on assigned cases
  • Take primary responsibility for decision-making on high-stakes and complex legal matters
  • Develop case strategy and provide leadership and direction to attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants regarding casework
  • Handle key court appearances
  • Regularly communicate with clients and third parties to effectively move cases forward and to a successful conclusion
  • Perform weekly case reviews to ensure clients receive proactive communication
  • Contemporaneous entry of notes and billable time into the Firm’s Case Management System

Communication

  • Work collaboratively with the team members at all levels
  • Deepen the firm’s relationships with its clients
  • Work with Managing Partner / Firm Administrator to assess and optimize business operations and processes
  • Lead the legal production team to effectively move files from start to finish
  • Delegate to Paralegals and legal staff to accomplish tasks where appropriate but remain responsible for ensuring the timely and professional completion of the work assigned
  • Oversee, counsel, guide, train, and mentor associates, paralegals, and legal staff, including assigning work and monitoring work product
  • Recommend skills training for the legal production team to the Managing Partner / Firm Administrator
  • Responsible for billable hours, profitability, and origination of work
  • Actively networks bring in new clients and help grow the firm's client base
  • Represents the firm at events, cites content, and builds the firm's reputation
  • Adhere to the Firm’s policies and procedures
  • Make recommendations on the design, deployment, and execution of new and existing policies, procedures, processes, checklists, templates, forms, etc.
  • Qualifications :

  • Be licensed to practice law in Florida
  • Be in good standing with the Florida Bar
  • Significant experience in estate planning and probate / trust administration
  • Experience in guardianship is a highly preferred but not required
  • Special needs trust planning is preferred but not required.
  • Bilingual is preferred
  • Familiar with basic functions in Microsoft 365 (MS Excel, MS Word, Teams, and MS Outlook) required
  • About Company

    Do you want a mission-driven career in a positive environment where you have autonomy, and your opinions are respected with significant opportunities for growth?

    We help high-achieving professional families through tailored legal and advisor services, ensuring a seamless foundation of personal, financial and planning needs they can only dream of.

    We are growing fast, and we need a Paralegal who can hit the ground running.

    Legacy Solutions Law Firm provides estate planning, probate, and guardianship legal services and is based in Broward County, Florida.

    Salary : $150,000 - $200,000

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