Senior Estate Planning Attorney - Hybrid Remote​/Center

Estate Planning Attorney
- Hybrid Remote
- Century City / Los Angeles
- Up To $250k Base + Bonus

Based in Century City and founded over half a century ago, we are a 30-attorney estate planning boutique focused on the wealth transfer and estate needs of high-net-worth individuals, business owners, real estate investors, and their families. Our firm's attorneys have taught estate planning at UCLA Extension since 1963 and lecture at the country's leading tax and estate planning institutes. Small-firm collaboration, deep technical work, and client relationships that frequently span multiple generations.

Why join us?

• Base salary $150k–$250k + bonus
• Medical insurance — HMO and PPO options for you and your dependents
• Dental and vision for you and your dependents at no cost to you
• 401(k) retirement plan with firm profit-sharing contributions
• Life and AD&D insurance at no cost, with optional additional coverage for you and dependents
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts — medical and dependent care
• Employee Assistance Program at no cost to you and your dependents
• Paid parking
• California State Bar dues, MCLE, and bar association memberships covered
• Online concierge for discounts
• Hybrid remote
• Real mentorship — direct access to the collective knowledge of senior attorneys who teach and lecture in the field
• Multigenerational client relationships and direct client contact, not back-room support work

Job Details

You'll handle sophisticated estate planning and wealth transfer matters for high-net-worth individuals, business owners, and their families, with the firm's full practice available to you as you grow.

• Design and draft estate plans — wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, and related wealth transfer documents
• Advise on tax-efficient wealth transfer strategies
• Handle estate and trust administration matters
• Work on business succession planning for business owners and real estate investors
• Structure charitable planning and family foundations
• Collaborate with senior attorneys and paralegals across the firm's estate, trust, and litigation practices

Looking for:

• California Bar admission
• 3+ years of estate planning experience with a trusts and estates / wealth transfer focus
• Associate through of counsel levels considered

Any combination of the following is fine, you don't need all of them:

• High Net Worth Estate Planning / Wealth Transfer Planning
• Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts
• GRATs, QTIPs, Marital Trusts
• Estate and Gift Tax Planning
• Business Succession Planning
• Powers of Attorney / Advance Directives