Partner/ Director

One of the UK’s largest Private Client teams. A thriving Birmingham office. Your next Partnership opportunity.

HCR Law is a progressive, entrepreneurial legal firm built on innovation, collaboration, and exceptional client service. Our Birmingham office is a hive of activity, having grown by over 60% in the last couple of years, and is a key part of our continued national expansion.

We’re now looking for a Private Client Partner to help lead, grow, and shape our Private Client offering in the West Midlands. This is a rare chance to step into a senior role within one of the UK’s largest Private Client teams, (nearly 120-strong),and be part of something truly ambitious.

The Role

You’ll join a nationally respected team and be responsible for growing a practice in our Birmingham based Private Client function. This includes:

• Assisting in providing strategic direction and leadership to our growing West Midlands practice.
• Delivering expert advice across a broad spectrum of private client matters: wills, trusts, estate planning, succession planning, probate, LPAs, and more.
• Building and maintaining relationships with high-net-worth individuals, business families, and landed estates, many of whom have complex and high-value UK and international portfolios.
• Collaborating with colleagues across our firm’s departments and hubs to deliver truly holistic legal support.
• Mentoring junior team members and creating an environment of continuous professional development and excellence.
• Actively contributing to business development and enhancing our market profile in the region.

Why Join HCR Law’s Private Client Team?

With almost 120 specialists, our Private Client team is one of the largest in the UK. We are deeply embedded across all of HCR’s offices and are highly ranked by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500, with many individuals recognised as leaders in their field.

Our approach is collaborative and client-focused, working closely with corporate, property, and family law colleagues to ensure clients receive integrated, strategic advice.

• Private wealth management
• Agricultural property and landed estates
• Contentious trusts and probate
• Strategic tax and succession planning for UK and international clients
• Trusts, LPAs, deputyship, and estate administration

We act for a significant number of UHNW individuals and families, often with substantial business interests, as well as major landed estates across the country.

About You

About You

You will be:

• A qualified solicitor with substantial experience in Private Client law
• Experienced in working with HNW/UHNW clients, including those with complex assets or international elements
• Capable of managing teams and developing practice areas
• Commercially savvy and confident in business development
• Collaborative, client-focused, and ambitious
• Ideally STEP qualified or holding membership in relevant professional bodies

Be Part of Something Bigger

If you’re ready to lead, grow, and make a lasting impact within a nationally respected team, we want to hear from you.

Apply nowor contact our recruitment team to arrange a confidential conversation.

About Us

Benefits of working with us:

•28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership

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