Principal / Partner - Wills and Estates - Planning/Administration
Step into a principal seat without bringing a client base
No billable hours and no time recording, fixed fee firm
$200,000 to $250k + base
Hybrid role for East Coast Candidate with lots of flexibility
Have you got the technical experience?
Do you run the complex estates, keep clients steady on the worst day of their lives, and leave the juniors that you mentor and support, better lawyers than they were a year ago?
Have you still been told the only way to Partnership is to bring a book with you?
This one does not work like that!
You will step into a principal seat and take the practice somewhere.
The work is already coming through the door, so your job is not to go out and find it.
Your job is to build the practice that can handle it.
You will be manage and own the strategy across estate planning, probate and estate administration.
You will work out what the team needs to look like 12 to 18 months from now, and make the case for it.
There are no billable hours here or time recording.




The firm charges fixed fees and measures its lawyers on the quality of the work, the client outcome and conversion.
What you will need
7 or more years in wills and estates, across both planning and administration
Partner, principal or special counsel level, or you have run your own practice
High level experience with Probate, letters of administration, testamentary trusts and contested estates
A commercially astute mind, that can read what the numbers are telling you before someone puts it in a report
A current Australian practising certificate, and readiness to take principal authorisation in NSW
Based on the east coast, and able to get to Sydney now and then
The firm
An established Australian practice with a national wills and estates client base and a legal team growing quickly.
Fixed fee model, robust systems, and a leadership team genuinely interested in doing this differently.
$200k to $250k basic depending on experience level
Hybrid but with a Sydney office there when you want it.
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📌 Partner / Wills And Estates (New South Wales)
🏢 PGR Recruitment
📍 New South Wales