Tasks / Competencies / Responsibility
Position: Private Client Lawyer
Level: Senior
Working hours: 100%
Place of work: Zurich
Line manager: Dr. Alexander Lindemann
Job objective:
✓ Acquiring clients in the field of law
✓ Building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients by providing excellent advice and proactive support
✓ Development and implementation of individual arrangements and solutions, taking into account the financial situation and objectives of the clients
✓ Comprehensive legal advice and support for high-net-worth individuals and family businesses in all legal matters, in particular:
- Inheritance planning
- Asset management
- Tax optimisation
- Business succession
✓ Drafting of wills, trusts, prenuptial agreements and other legal documents for asset protection and transfer
✓ Development and implementation of strategies for asset protection and optimisation, including international structures
✓ Advice on complex tax issues, including the design of tax strategies and representation before tax authorities
✓ Involvement in the development of new products and services
✓ Active participation in an international team
✓ Participation in industry events and conferences
✓ Active use of AI
MbO / metrics:
The target agreement is based on quantitative and qualitative criteria. The focus is on
✓ Acquisition of mandates in the legal field
✓ Cross-selling
✓ Billable hours
✓ Client satisfaction
✓ Marketing activities (newsletters, videos, events)
Job profile
Gender: M / F
Age: 30-50
Professional competence
Education/further training:
✓ Swiss bar exam and first-class qualification
✓ Additional studies in commercial law, tax law or family law
Professional experience:
✓ 5 to 15 years of relevant professional experience in a law firm or asset management
Languages:
✓ Stylistically confident, appropriate English
✓ Stylistically confident, appropriate German
Social skills
✓ Communication skills / negotiation skills
✓ Self-assertion and assertiveness
✓ Social intelligence / psychological sensitivity / empathy
✓ Contact skills / customer and market orientation
✓ Teamwork / willingness to cooperate
✓ Integrity
Self-competence
✓ Performance motivation / professional ambition / perseverance
✓ Resilience / stress resistance / frustration tolerance
✓ Personal responsibility / Reliability / Adherence to deadlines
✓ Analytical and integrative thinking
✓ Flexibility / Openness to new ideas
✓ Personal impact (charisma, appearance, radiance)
Leadership skills
✓ Complex problem solving / networked thinking
✓ Motivation for leadership and creativity
✓ Leadership development / coaching skills
✓ Priority setting / delegation
✓ Planning and organisation
✓ Entrepreneurial thinking
To apply, please send your CV, a cover letter and references to Dr. iur. Alexander Lindemann at [email protected] and Shynar Lindemann at [email protected].
We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you to our team!