Florida Estate Planning and Tax Planning Attorney

Full-Time Florida Estate Planning and Tax Planning Attorney Opportunity - $150, annual salary plus Origination and Full Benefits

Fort Lauderdale, United States | Posted on 02/11/2026

We are a national network of experienced, high-level, freelance attorneys and paralegals who provide remote, on-demand support for both short-term and long-term legal projects for our client law firms.

Due to increased demand, we are now interviewing for a qualified, experienced and dedicated full-time Florida-based Estate Planning & Tax Planning Attorney. This is an in-office position located in Coral Gables in Miami-Dade County, Florida, not a remote role due to frequent client visits.

• Licensed in good standing to practice law in the State of Florida
• Minimum of 10 years’ Estate Planning & Tax Planning experience
• Analyze sophisticated trust and estate planning matters to develop effective strategies and solutions for clients
• Analyze and prepare complex estate and gift tax planning structures, including various corporate transactions and trusts, such as ILITs, SLATs, QPRTs, and IDGTs
• Coordinate the preparation and filing of tax forms such as Federal Form 706 and Form 709, ensuring compliance and accuracy
• Provide expert advice on trust and estate planning documents, trustee responsibilities, beneficiary rights, and distribution tax implications to clients
• Administer individual and family trusts, overseeing investments, banking activities, real estate holdings, and ensuring tax compliance
• Prepare trust/fiduciary accountings for Attorney-Trustees, manage financial statements, income, disbursements, and deliver accountings to beneficiaries
• Review and approve Foundational Estate Plans before submission to clients
• Draft comprehensive estate and gift tax planning structures, as well as corporate transactions, including preferred partnership freezes, Family Limited Partnerships, ILITs, SLATs, intentionally defective irrevocable trusts, and tax-free reorganizations
• Prepare and file Federal Form 706 for Estate and Generation-Skipping Taxes, coordinate with clients and service providers (CPAs, Financial Advisors, Insurance Providers) to receive supporting documentation
• Prepare and file Form 709 for United States Gift Taxes for transfers to individual donees, gifting trusts, generation-skipping trusts, etc., and ensure proper tax treatment with respect to cost basis, lifetime gifting exemptions, and split-gifts
• Advise Trustees in ongoing trust administrations
• Analyze trust and estate planning documents and advise clients with respect to trustees' powers and duties, dispositive provisions, beneficiary rights, and tax treatment of distributions
• Administer individual and family trusts with respect to investment and banking activity, real estate investments, including rental properties, corporate and partnership interests, and ensure federal tax compliance
• Lead the Team of professionals in the Foundational Estate Planning Dept
• Well-organized and proven ability to meet deadlines
• Self-starter and able to work independently
• Proficiency in using drafting software like Wealth Docs and Client Management Software such as Clio

We welcome you to join our established network of legal professionals!

Please respond with your resume and we will contact you in the next two days for a 30 minute online meeting to answer all of your questions about this opportunity and The Freelance Firm.

Resume submissions will be kept in strict confidence.