Partner, Wills & Estates

Safewill Legal

Safewill Legal is the affiliate law firm of Safewill, Australia’s leading digital estate planning platform.

Together, we’re modernising how Australians deal with estate planning and estate administration - combining specialist legal expertise with thoughtful technology and modern workflows.

Safewill Legal operates as a tech-enabled legal practice, working closely with Safewill’s product and operations teams to deliver estate planning and adminstration services in a faster, clearer and more client-friendly way.

Partner, Wills & Estates

Due to consistent growth, we’re hiring a Partner to lead and grow our Wills & Estates practice. You’ll join a business with real momentum, a strong consumer brand, and an existing flow of estate planning and estate administration matters. This is a principal-level opportunity with genuine influence over legal quality, practice standards, team capability and growth.

The opportunity

This role is designed for a senior practitioner ready for a true leadership seat.

You may already be a Partner or Principal in a specialist or mid-sized firm. Or you may be a Special Counsel / Senior Associate operating at partner level and looking for the scope to step up.

You’ll oversee legal work across estate planning and deceased estates, support and mentor lawyers and legal support staff, and help build a practice known for both legal excellence and client care.

What you’ll own

• Lead and grow a modern Wills & Estates practice across estate planning, probate and estate administration

• Set the bar for legal quality, judgment, supervision and client service

• Oversee complex and sensitive matters with strong technical rigour and sound risk management

• Mentor and develop lawyers and legal support staff, lifting capability across the practice

• Shape practice strategy, service design and operational improvement as the team grows

• Advise Safewill on the wills and estates products and services it builds, ensuring legal judgment is embedded in design, delivery and ongoing improvement

About you

You are a senior Wills & Estates practitioner with the judgment, credibility and ambition to lead.

You care deeply about legal quality. You know how to balance technical excellence with commercial pragmatism, and you’re energised by the idea of building something better than the traditional firm model.

What we’re looking for

Must-haves

• Current Australian practising certificate, with demonstrated readiness to step into a principal-level role and obtain principal authorisation in NSW if not already held

• Significant experience in Wills & Estates, including estate planning, probate, letters of administration and estate administration

• Strong technical capability across complex wills and estates matters

• Demonstrated ability to supervise legal work and support the development of more junior lawyers

• Sound understanding of legal risk, professional obligations and quality management in legal practice

• Strong client judgment, with the ability to manage sensitive matters with empathy and clarity

• Commercial maturity and an appetite to help grow and shape a practice

Highly regarded

• Existing experience as a Partner, Principal, Special Counsel or equivalent senior practitioner

• Experience leading or helping build a specialist private client / estates practice

• Exposure to modern, scaled or operationally sophisticated legal service models

• Interest in improving legal delivery through systems, process, technology or service design

Why Safewill Legal?

• Our lawyers here help shape how legal work is delivered, not just execute it.

• We have intentionally built systems, structure and support to make for stronger practice.

• There is scope to influence more than your own matters, from standards and capability to service delivery.

• You’ll work alongside lawyers who care deeply about quality, precision and practising well.

We live by our SAFE values:

• Speed: We move quickly with purpose

• All-in: We win as a team

• Find the Impact: We focus on what matters

• Elevate: We raise the bar, every day