Today's Wills & Probate Podcast
The Today's Wills & Probate Podcast will speak to some of the industry's most influential people and those at the forefront of innovation. Listeners will have the opportunity to pick up key business insights, gain valuable knowledge and ask questions to guests.
Episodes
61 episodes
Defining workplace culture and its impact on leaders and employees
The latest Today's Wills and Probate Podcast welcomes workplace culture and staff retention specialist Andre Thomas of Thomas Telman to discuss the critical importance of cultivating a positive workplace culture and the direct impact this has o...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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24:17
Special Edition: Wills Act 2025 - What can we expect from the Law Commission report?
In this latest episode of the Today’s Wills and Probate Podcast, host David Opie is joined by Stephen Lawson, Partner at IDR Law and Elizabeth Gibbison, a solicitor at Irwin Mitchell and Chair of Law Society Private Client Solicitors Section Ad...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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38:34
Strategically navigating a consolidating estate planning market
Arken Group CEO Dave Newick joins the Today's Wills and Probate Podcast to discuss the output of a recent report published by Arken looking at the current landscape of the private client sector. The podcast focuses on three key disc...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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26:41
What you need to know about Islamic wills
In this Today’s Wills and Probate Podcast, host David Opie sat down with Mariam Khan, Solicitor at WMP Legal, to discuss the complexities of Islamic wills and estate planning.Many will writers and solicitors do not have the exper...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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18:10
Life in the law - have your say before 21st March 2025
Podcast host David Opie in joined by CEO of the charity LawCare, Elizabeth Rimmer, to discuss their latest "Life in the Law" surveys which are now open for completion until Friday 21st March. LawCare supports and promotes mental hea...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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21:48
"Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits"
The Today's Wills and Probate Podcast welcomes back Dan Warburton, a law firm consultant and trainer who specialises in helping individuals delegate work more effectively; in the process junior staff are elevated, the individual has a happier w...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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26:42
"Tech is only as good as the data you put in it"
In the second episode of the fourth series of the Today's Wills and Probate Podcast, host David Opie sat down with Taz Khalid, CEO, and Jean Ward, COO of My Probate Solicitor (MPS), to discuss the launch of the new business and the introduction...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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27:10
Tackling the 'yawning gap' between professional and care sectors
In the first episode of the fourth series of the Today's Wills and Probate Podcast, host David Opie is joined by Alison Hesketh of TimeFinders; a service best described as providing later life admin support.Filling the "yawning gap" bet...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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24:31
Probate administration; better or worse?
What is the current sentiment across the profession around wills, probate, client experience, speed of administration, attitude toward financial services... that is the topic of the latest Today's Wills and Probate which delves into the recentl...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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32:37
Shared experience; insight and best practice in estate administration
Legal Services Director at Kings Court Trust Charlotte Toogood joins the latest Today's Wills and Probate podcast to impart her experience of working in estate administration over the last 16 years. With contentious probate o...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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37:29
Case Review: The Lessons of Leonard v Leonard
Today's Wills and Probate Host David Opie is joined by Birketts' Head of the Private Wealth Dispute Team Bernadette Baker and Partner in the team Kate Harris to discuss the case of Leonard v Leonard; a convoluted and disputed probate case conce...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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30:01
QualitySolicitors - The next chapter
As one of the disruptors in the wake of the Legal Services Act 2007 QualitySolicitors (QS) was launched in 2009 with the ambition to help the high street fight back against the anticipated onslaught of major brands entering the legal market - s...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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26:47
Free and low cost will schemes - good or bad?
Free and low cost will schemes are an established part of the wills and probate sector, providing charities with valuable legacy income streams, and practitioners with their largest source of lead generation. The latest Today's Wills an...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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26:11
Don't forget about attendance allowance
Dean Morgan is the Managing Director of a franchise of Grey Matters Consultancy; a business founded with the aim of meeting the needs of those in retirement at the point they need additional assistance, and for offering guidance to those who ha...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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21:36
The launch of the National Association of Independent Administrators
Helen Stewart, Partner and Head of Probate at Thomson, Snell & Passmore joins the latest Today's Wills and Probate Podcast to discuss the launch of a new association to support collaboration and best practice amongst independent administrat...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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22:03
Wills in North America vs England & Wales
Tim Hewson joins the Today's Wills and Probate podcast to discuss LegalWills - his Canadian-based technology company providing will writing and estate planning services in Canada and North America. The business started in a bar in Ottaw...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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32:33
AML and sanctions data collection - What you need to know
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has recently requested law firms complete an anti-money laundering and sanctions data collection exercise. The SRA is required by Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS) t...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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37:02
Normalising charity legacies and leaving gifts in wills
Behaviour change campaign Remember a Charity is a consortium of around 200 charities dedicated to growing the legacy market; helping charities develop what is an increasingly vital long term revenue stream.In the latest Today's Wills and...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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29:16
Understanding the cost of legacy fundraising
Ashley Rowthorn, CEO and Kath Horsley, Senior Consultant at Legacy Futures join the Today's Wills and Probate podcast to discuss their latest piece of research on the investment charities make in their marketing.The Legacy Marketing Ben...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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32:32
Regulation, collaboration and the response to the CMA Guidance
Regulation, collaboration and the response to the Competition and Markets Authority review of will writing services all form part of the latest Today's Wills and Probate Podcast. Host David Opie is joined by Antony Brinkman; CEO of the Willwrit...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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31:21
The five most expensive words in the English language
The five most expensive words in the English language - "it's a matter of principle." Because principles cost money. And this increasingly plays out across contentious private client matters, in inheritance and probate disputes. jo...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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24:36
The Great Wealth Transfer
People who were born between 1946 and 1964, the so called Baby Boomer Generation, is a cohort of 16.8 million people; and due to favourable financial conditions in that time are the wealthiest generation in human history, holding somewhere in t...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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26:44
Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 Special
In this specially recorded podcast, the Today's Wills and Probate podcast joins forces with its sister podcasts from the Today's Conveyancer and Today's Family Lawyer online news publications to discuss the topic of mental health and wellbeing ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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50:38
Using technology to help manage digital assets
Dylan O'Brien, the founder of BePrepared, joins the latest Today's Wills and Probate podcast to discuss his take on the increasingly challenging issue of managing digital assets in estate planning, and what role technology has to play in suppor...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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28:43
We're all human, we all make mistakes
Joining the latest Today's Wills and Probate Podcast is Dan Temple, an expert in acknowledging and understanding the human impact of working, and managing employees and businesses. The discussion centres on creating effective and high performin...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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26:19