Advanced Estate Planning Attorney
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Hargrove Firm
Louisville, KY, US
Summary
The attorney will guide clients through the estate planning process and lead virtual meetings to present tailored strategies. Responsibilities include drafting complex estate documents and collaborating with financial advisors to ensure effective plan implementation.
Job Description
About the Company
Hargrove Firm is a national estate planning and tax law firm serving individuals and families across all 50 states through a modern, technology-enabled legal platform. We partner with leading RIA firms and financial advisors to deliver sophisticated estate planning in a client-focused, accessible, and efficient way. We are growing and seeking an experienced Estate Planning Attorney to join our team.
About the Role
This is an opportunity to practice estate planning without the traditional billable-hour model, while working with high-quality clients, respected financial advisors, and a collaborative national legal team. The Estate Planning Attorney will guide clients through the planning process, lead virtual client meetings, advise on complex estate and tax planning issues, and help ensure each plan is thoughtfully designed, properly coordinated, and effectively implemented. This role is ideal for an attorney who is confident with clients, comfortable working with financial advisors, and interested in practicing at the forefront of modern estate planning.
Responsibilities
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Conduct virtual client meetings to gather information, clarify goals, and present tailored estate planning strategies.
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Draft and review estate planning documents, including wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, and related planning instruments.
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Lead sophisticated client and advisor meetings with professionalism, clarity, and confidence.
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Collaborate with financial advisors, internal team members, and our of-counsel attorney network across all 50 states.
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Stay current on federal and state estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax laws.
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Advise clients on asset titling, beneficiary designations, and trust funding.
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Build and maintain strong relationships with financial advisors and their leadership teams.
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Respond to client and advisor inquiries promptly and professionally.
Qualifications
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Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
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Licensed to practice law and in good standing with at least one state bar.
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Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in estate & trust planning.
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At least 3 years of advanced estate planning experience.
Required Skills
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Strong knowledge of estate planning, high-net-worth planning, and trust funding.
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Excellent client-facing skills, including the ability to explain complex planning concepts clearly.
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Strong organizational, time-management, analytical, drafting, and writing skills.
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Comfort working in a technology-enabled legal practice.
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Commitment to exceptional client service.
Preferred Skills
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No billable hour requirement.
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Competitive salary and benefits.
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401(k) with employer match.
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Comprehensive health insurance.
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Paid time off.
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Flexible work arrangements.
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Collaborative team environment.
Hargrove Firm is committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
Hargrove Firm provides estate, tax, and business succession planning legal services for individuals, families, business owners, and financial professionals. Through Hargrove Firm, advisors and RIAs can help clients access attorney-led estate planning through a modern, visible, fixed-fee process.
The firm’s role is simple: bring legal accountability, experienced attorney guidance, and national estate planning capability into a process that can work inside the modern advisory relationship.
Hargrove Firm supports clients and advisors with estate planning, trust planning, business succession planning, advanced tax planning, probate, trust administration, special needs planning, and related legal services.
For advisory firms, Hargrove’s role is not only to provide legal credibility. It is to make the estate planning handoff clearer, more consistent, and easier for advisors to trust across offices, advisors, and states.
Founded
2011
Company size
2-10 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Partnership
Headquarters
Louisville, KY
Hargrove Firm provides estate, tax, and business succession planning legal services for individuals, families, business owners, and financial professionals. Through Hargrove Firm, advisors and RIAs can help clients access attorney-led estate planning through a modern, visible, fixed-fee process.
The firm’s role is simple: bring legal accountability, experienced attorney guidance, and national estate planning capability into a process that can work inside the modern advisory relationship.
Hargrove Firm supports clients and advisors with estate planning, trust planning, business succession planning, advanced tax planning, probate, trust administration, special needs planning, and related legal services.
For advisory firms, Hargrove’s role is not only to provide legal credibility. It is to make the estate planning handoff clearer, more consistent, and easier for advisors to trust across offices, advisors, and states.
Founded
2011
Company size
2-10 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Partnership
Headquarters
Louisville, KY