Since joining Certainty 6 months ago Morrisons Solicitors has registered over 400 Wills on behalf of their clients. Morrisons is a typical example of a firm that has embraced Will registration and used it to create a very positive effect for both client and firm.
In the last few months I have been asked to advise a number of small and medium sized firms on how to develop their private client department. As part of the planning process I asked each of these firms who they regarded as their competition? Every firm e-mailed me back a list of half a dozen or so other traditional legal practices in their town, city or local market place.
A national Will Register is not a new idea. Lack of technology and funding has previously hampered the implementation of an effective Will Register.
My fellow legal colleagues and I joined Certainty because we realised it had taken an old idea (a Wills Register), grabbed it by the scruff of the neck and turned it into something that produces enormous marketing, fee earning and client-enhancing benefits for the Wills & Probate professional.
During the last 12 months hundreds of solicitors’ practices in England & Wales have joined Certainty in order to offer their clients the unique benefits that Certainty’s on-line national Will Register service provides. We asked four firms for their comments on progress so far.
Reading-based Boyes Turner is one of the UK’s leading full service law firms. They work with many of the world’s largest multinationals and successful UK and European businesses – as well as looking after private clients’ interests.
A national will register is not a new idea. Lack of technology and funding has previously hampered the implementation of an effective will register.
Source: Law Society Gazette 03/03/2009
The statutory legacy payable on intestacy to surviving spouses and civil partners rose as of 1 February 2009 to £250,000 where there are children and £450,000 where there are no children but parents or siblings.
Tuesday 08 August 2006
Eight out of ten people want the government to protect them from untrained and unregulated will writers, according to a new survey.
An ICM poll found that 85 per cent of adults believe that everyone offering will-making services should be properly regulated.
A growing number of people are being exploited by people claiming to be experts in will writing. The Law Society has today published a Dossier of despair to illustrate the risks of using unregulated will writers. (more…)
