"Contacts are ALWAYS available with friendly and helpful advice. I have always been given a personal service of the highest level." - Legal 500, 2022

Our specialist team of Wills, Trusts & Probate solicitors is led by our Partner Rachael Stephenson and will work to help you ensure you can best provide financially for the people you love through life-changing events.

As a team we pride ourselves both on our legal knowledge and on being able to apply it to your best advantage; protecting your financial assets and explaining our advice in a clear and straight-forward manner. As part of a multi-disciplinary law firm, we have in-house expertise in all areas, from family law, to commercial property, to dispute resolution and we are also able to draw on the specialist skills of accountants, financial advisers, investment managers, private banks and barristers.

We have considerable experience in managing high value and cross-border estates and international wealth too, so understand the challenges they can present when dealing with estate planning, powers of attorney and estate administration generally and our contested probate team and inheritance disputes team are always on hand to help in the case of disagreements arising from the interpretation of a will or the division of an estate.

One of the things we are most proud of is that our clients are loyal to us - they trust us. To earn that trust we’ve taken time to get to know them, to appreciate their concerns and identify their priorities and we continue to maintain that trust long term.

Each member of our team is available at our offices in Carlisle, Cockermouth, and Newcastle and we are also very happy to visit our clients at home. Just get in touch and we’ll be happy to help you.