Mid-level Estate Planning Attorney

Rosenblum Law has served New Jersey clients for over 20 years, and our estate planning practice is growing fast. We have the marketing engine, weekly workshops, and the client demand. As volume grows, quality has to keep pace. We are looking for an estate planning attorney to own draft review, raise the quality of every plan we deliver, and help build the systems and team that make great drafts the norm.

This is a chance to move from working inside someone else's system to helping build and lead one. You will help establish drafting and review standards, build and oversee the attorney review team, handle complex escalations, and continuously improve the systems behind the practice. As we grow, you will also help expand the types of estate planning matters and planning strategies we offer, working directly with firm leadership to build the legal infrastructure, team, and processes needed to support that growth.

About the role

• Focused, high-value work: your core job is reviewing and perfecting estate plans — no chasing business, no juggling a full consultation calendar.
• Real impact: you are the reason families get documents they can rely on.
• Build something: you help design the checklists, templates, and review process the department runs on; your ideas get implemented, not filed away.
• Develop a team: you help coach attorneys, paralegals, and drafters so first drafts keep getting better, and you help hire the people who will grow with us.
• A clear path forward: we promote based on results, with growth into senior review and department leadership as the practice expands.
• A life outside work: predictable hours, and our attorneys rarely take work home.

Responsibilities

• Build out the draft review team. Review wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, and related documents for legal accuracy, internal consistency, and alignment with each client's goals before they reach the client.
• Give feedback that sticks: return clear, specific comments to drafters, and track recurring issues so the same mistake does not happen twice.
• Build the review system: create and maintain review checklists, quality standards, and turnaround targets so every plan gets the same thorough review.
• Improve the templates: work with attorneys to refine templates, clause library, and drafting SOPs based on what you see in review.
• Train and develop the team: coach paralegals and drafters, run short training sessions on common issues, and help onboard and evaluate new team members.
• Handle complex drafting: draft or revise plans that need an attorney's hand, such as specialized clauses, blended families, or special needs planning.
• Support the client experience: join strategy sessions and signing ceremonies as needed to answer questions and confirm the plan fits the client.
• Stay current: keep up with estate, tax, and elder law developments and update documents when the law changes.

Requirements

• J.D. and active New Jersey bar admission in good standing.
• 3+ years of practice focused on estate planning, primarily drafting Revocable Living Trusts (both individual and joint trusts), with 150+ trusts drafted.
• 3+ years experience independently drafting revocable and irrevocable trusts, wills, powers of attorney, and health care directives.
• High-level experience using Wealth Counsel.
• A sharp eye for detail and the ability to give clear, constructive feedback.
• Working knowledge of federal estate and gift tax and the New Jersey inheritance tax.
• Strong organizational skills and comfort managing a steady volume of drafts against deadlines.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience reviewing, supervising, or training paralegals or junior attorneys.
• New York and/or Pennsylvania bar admission.
• Experience with WealthCounsel or similar document-assembly software.
• Experience building templates, checklists, or SOPs in a high-volume practice.
• LL.M. in Taxation or Estate Planning.

Pay

Base salary of $150,000 to $200,000, based on experience. Performance bonus of up to 25% of base salary, tied to review quality, turnaround, and team development. Origination bonuses on matters you personally bring in (firm-generated leads excluded).

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with profit sharing
• PTO
• CLE reimbursement and annual professional-development budget

Schedule

Full-time, in office, with predictable hours. Working on site alongside the drafting team means faster feedback and quicker answers. Modern office at 777 Passaic Ave., Suite 460, Clifton, NJ, minutes from Routes 3, 46, and 21 and the Garden State Parkway.

Career progression

• Review Attorney (at hire): own draft review, build the review system, and train the drafting team.
• Senior Review Attorney (24–36 months): lead a review team and set drafting standards across the department.
• Department leadership (36 months): help lead the estate planning practice as it grows.

We promote based on results, and every step comes with a compensation review.

First 90 days

• First month: learn our templates, systems, and team; review plans alongside the team and sit in on strategy sessions and signings.
• Second month: take ownership of draft review, start tracking recurring issues, and provide actionable feedback.
• Third month: present your first review checklist and template improvements, and run your first training session for the drafting team.

Hiring process

• 20-minute introductory call with our Managing Attorney
• 20-minute conversation with our head Paralegal
• Short practical exercise reviewing and drafting sample estate plans
• Final interview with key department team and leadership
• Offer

We respond to every applicant within 5 business days and aim to make an offer within 3 weeks of the first conversation.