Private Wealth Services Associate (Junior - Mid-Level) - AUS

About the role

Greenberg Traurig (GT), a global law firm, seeks a full-time Associate in the Private Wealth Services Practice of our Austin office. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Designing and drafting complex estate planning documents, including Wills, revocable trust agreements, and irrevocable trust agreements.
• Drafting documents to transfer stock, business interests, and real estate.
• Managing complex trust and estate administrations.
• Drafting trust modifications, decantings, mergers, nonjudicial settlement agreements, and trust terminations.
• Conducting sophisticated legal research and analysis involving multijurisdictional and occasionally cross-border estate planning considerations.

Requirements

• A minimum of one year of experience in sophisticated estate planning for high-net-worth individuals and families, trust and estate administration, and gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning.
• Proven track record in trust and estate matters.
• Excellent academic and working credentials, strong research, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• In good standing with the Texas Bar, or eligible for admission to the Texas Bar.
• Ranked in the top of their law school class or graduated from a top-tier law school with a strong academic record.
• May have an LL.M. in Taxation or Estate Planning (strongly preferred, though not required if the candidate otherwise has a solid trusts and estates background).

Qualifications

• Highly detail-oriented, organized, and proactive.
• Experience in a fast-paced law firm setting working on trust and estate matters.
• Ranked in the top of their law school class or graduated from a top-tier law school with a strong academic record.
• May have an LL.M. in Taxation or Estate Planning (strongly preferred, though not required if the candidate otherwise has a solid trusts and estates background).

Skills

• Strong research, writing, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex matters.

Benefits

Greenberg Traurig provides an excellent benefits package.

Pay

Competitive compensation is offered.

Schedule

The position is full-time.

Benefits

Greenberg Traurig is an EEO employer with an inclusive workplace committed to merit-based consideration and review without regard to an individual’s race, sex, or other protected characteristics and to the principles of non-discrimination on any protected basis.