Litigation - Trusts & Estates Attorney in Greenwich, CT

Law Firm

Greenwich, CT

Litigation - Trusts & Estates Attorney in Greenwich, CT

Attorney

Min 1 yrs required

No

Part-time Trusts & Estates Associate
The candidate will be to work directly with and advise high net worth individuals and family businesses on tax, trust, and estate and business succession matters. Must have 5 years of experience practicing in a law firm's relevant/Private Client group; strong academic credentials (JD required; LLM is a plus); Bar membership preferred; strong drafting, writing, research, and communication skills; experience drafting complex wills and trusts; experience drafting, explaining, recommending, and finalizing sophisticated wealth planning strategies and documents including Family Limited Partnerships, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Dynasty Trusts, Insurance Trusts, Annual Exclusion Trusts, Directed Trusts, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Buy-Sell Agreements, Decanting and Private Trust Companies in providing clients with long term wealth planning strategies; knowledge of and ability to research and apply rules governing estate, gift, GST, and income taxation of trusts and estates, gift and estate tax return reporting and preparation; International experience a plus; ability to work directly with clients to establish, develop and maintain long-term relationships; strong project management, ability to balance a large number of competing priorities; attention to detail, be a Team Player.