Our nationally recognized Employee Benefits/Tax Practice is seeking a Counsel to join our growing Trusts & Estates team within the Private Client Practice in our Chicago office.

This is a unique opportunity to work with an experienced and collaborative group that provides tailored, strategic counsel to high-net-worth individuals and families, family offices, fiduciaries, business owners, and charitable organizations. You’ll be part of a dynamic, mission-driven team that values creativity, collaboration, and long-term client partnerships. We offer a collegial environment, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to make a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients and their communities

About the Practice

Our Private Client Practice is known for its thoughtful and sophisticated approach to:

• Wealth preservation and estate planning
• Estate and trust administration
• Fiduciary counseling and litigation
• Business and succession planning
• Asset protection strategies
• Philanthropic planning and capital deployment for social impact

We take pride in building long-term relationships with clients who value our accessibility, creativity, and empathetic approach to their most personal and complex matters. We are trusted advisors to high-net-worth families and individuals, corporate and individual fiduciaries, entrepreneurs, charitable foundations, and donors.

Role Responsibilities

As Counsel in our Trusts & Estates group, you will:

• Advise clients on sophisticated estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer, and income tax planning matters
• Provide strategic counsel on trust and estate administration, fiduciary obligations, and related litigation
• Structure business succession and asset protection strategies
• Support clients in charitable giving and philanthropic endeavors
• Collaborate across practice areas to provide holistic and tax-efficient solutions

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school; strong academic credentials required
• Admission to the Illinois Bar (or eligibility to waive in)
• 7+ years of experience in estate planning, trust and estate administration, and related tax matters
• Significant experience working with high-net-worth clients and fiduciaries
• Strong interpersonal skills, business acumen, and a client-service mindset
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex matters and client relationships with discretion and empathy

Kilpatrick is a full-service, international law firm with more than 600 attorneys who work with forward-thinking clients in established and emerging industries to solve their most business-critical matters.

Kilpatrick attorneys are fully engaged in the success of the firm's clients. We deliver results-oriented counsel for corporations at all stages of the growth cycle, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. A close collaboration between the firm's practice areas ensures that we are well-positioned to serve all of our clients' needs.

We serve clients around the world from offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, China, Japan, and Sweden. We value our client relationships and are committed to learning and furthering the business, as well as legal goals, of each company we work with. 

We strive at every level to develop beneficial relationships built on trust and mutual respect. We partner with the senior executives and internal counsel of our corporate clients, integrating and sharing tasks as appropriate. We take pride in the fact that clients who hire us once, typically hire us again. Our success is measured by the results we achieve on behalf of our clients, and we commit ourselves, without reservation, to the overriding objective of client satisfaction.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or gender, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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