A Manchester-based legal start-up is adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to ‘speed up and simplify’ the process of managing their probate estates.
My Probate Solicitors (MPS) has been co-founded by Tasnim Khalid, Paul Gotch, Nicola Walker, Jean Warde, Alvin Oliva and Ryan Lewis and plans to disrupt the fixed fee probate legal market. Chief Operating Officer Jean Warde explains how their bespoke AI platform named Xeena is able to reduce the time taken to prepare probate applications and provide “unique reassurance” to clients by having qualified lawyers complete the work for a fixed fee:
“Administering the estates of those who have died is very important but time-consuming and not terribly straightforward. Any delay in making a probate application can, of course, hold up the execution of a will. Furthermore, if the process is not done properly, there can be serious consequences for those acting on behalf of the deceased.”
“Our fundamental objective is to supercharge the probate process, making it as simple and fast as possible for clients. By harnessing the very latest technology, we will prepare the necessary documents for checking by our solicitors and have them submitted within six weeks. In fact, we are so sure of our ability to do so that we’re prepared to write off our fees if we fail. We genuinely believe that there is no other firm around offering transparent, fixed-fee probate work with our combination of speed and expertise.”
MPS is backed by Private Client Solicitors, recently included in The Times best 250 law firms and identified by Legal 500 as having some of the profession’s “leading advisers”. Although MPS and PCS are distinct operations, Mrs Warde added MPS’s clients would benefit from the combined decades of experience amassed by the senior leadership team, concluding
“Not all estates are large or complex. Yet even though the law which governs all estates is the same, there hasn’t previously been an effective, fixed-fee probate solution for those lower value estates. My Probate Solicitors has been specifically created to address that issue.
“Our agility and extensive expertise will be of great comfort to both our corporate and private clients alike. In fact, we are so confident of the potential of what we are able to offer that we reasonably believe we can become the leading provider of reserved legal activities to the estate planning business community in England and Wales.”
