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Clough & Willis sees 61% jump in private client services

Law firm Clough & Willis has seen a 61% year on year jump in the demand for its private client services with the vast majority being for the drafting and updating of Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney.

The firm is directly linking the spike with the Coronavirus crisis. The figures are direct comparisons between mid-March and mid-April in 2019 and 2020.

The Private Client team, which is headed up partner Nicola Finbow, offers advice on will writing and updating, contentious probate, estate planning, estate administration, trusts and Lasting Powers of Attorney. A Lasting Powers of Attorney allows you to appoint one or more people to help you make decisions or to make decisions on your behalf if you have an accident or an illness and cannot make your own decisions or lack mental capacity.

The demand for these services is from a wide demographic with ages of clients varying from those in their early 30s to their mid-80s.

Nicola Finbow said: “This kind of upturn in the numbers of people wanting to update or create a new Will or Lasting Power of Attorney is quite astonishing. We all know that Coronavirus has affected our lives in ways that were unimaginable just a few weeks ago, but to see people wanting to get their affairs in order in case the worst happens to them has been quite moving and profound.

Nicola added: Our focus is on providing all the support we can to our clients and to give them real peace of mind in what is such an upsetting time.“

The firm will be donating a percentage from every new Will instruction to the NHS Charities Together’s Covid-19 Appeal over the next four weeks.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clough & Willis Solicitors .