Legal Counsel, Farewill
Wills & Probate
£45-50k
+ Stock Options
2 days a week in office (Haggerston, London)
Wills, probate, and cremation service
Job no longer available
Wills, probate, and cremation service
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£45-50k
+ Stock Options
2 days a week in office (Haggerston, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change the way the world deals with death.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate is qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, ideally with a STEP qualification
- You’ll have 2-5 years experience in will drafting and probate, strong knowledge of tax and trusts, and ideally knowledge of NI and Scottish wills
- As with everyone in our Legal team, you’ll be pragmatic, commercially-minded and solutions-focussed, with excellent communication skills. If these are your strengths, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- We're on the lookout for a skilled Legal Counsel to join our tight-knit, high performing team and help deliver world-class Wills and Probate services to our customers
- You’ll report directly to our Head of Legal Harvey and work closely with our Senior Legal Counsel Julia, and build a close partnership with our Wills and Probate teams
- As our Legal Counsel, you will be responsible for owning the legal aspects of Farewill's professional executorship service, Probate product (probate itself is not carried out in house) and providing quality assurance checks for our Wills product
- Professional executorship duties: Where Farewill Trustees is appointed as professional executor under a will, you will lead on carrying out our professional duties
- Probate product design: Provide legal input into our Probate product quote flows, landing pages, product guides, marketing materials, call scripts and more
- Probate team training: Train our Probate Sales team on topics such as estate administration, valuing estates and regulatory changes so that they are well-equipped to talk to customers about our product
- Wills quality assurance: Provide quality assurance by checking wills written by our will writing specialists for accuracy and compliance with legal requirements
- Risk management: Work closely with our Head of Legal to continuously identify, manage, and mitigate risk across the business
- Point of escalation: Be the day-to-day point of escalation for questions/issues related to Probate from across the business
- Disputed wills: Dealing with Larke v Nugus requests and other queries related to disputed wills
- …and lots more!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In the UK, the majority of wills and probates are made by solicitors or will-writing firms. However, these are often extremely expensive and not affordable for most people.
A growing number of DIY will services have popped up over the last few years, but most have poor user experience and no real support beyond the form itself. Customers are required to read 10-20 pages of legal documents and decide what applies to them. Farewill's technology asks simple questions and generates legal text. Wills are important legal documents, and so each will is still checked by a specialist. Customers to date have raised hundreds of millions of pounds in charity by leaving a gift in their will.
A competitor in the US (Willing) has taken the freemium route, referring customers to funeral services to make money. However, Farewill believes it can provide a better experience if the product is paid for. Farewell is also partnering with UK companies to provide the service as a perk to their employees, a novel distribution method.
Since launching in 2015, the company has also delved into funeral services. By blending smart technology, Farewill prides itself in dealing with all aspects of death and is committed to making this process faster and fairer for people all over the UK.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2020
$26.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2019
$10.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $38.4m
Company benefits
- £1000 and 3 days a year to spend on your development
- 28 days holiday and flexible working, dependent on your role
- Regular team lunches and socials
- Stock options
- An unlimited Santander Cycles pass, free fruit and snacks, a beautifully bright office in Haggerston and – most of all – the chance to have a real impact on people’s lives
Company HQ
Haggerston, London, UK
Leadership
Dan Garrett
(CEO)They studied Global Innovation Design at the Royal College of Art. They also have a Masters degree in Structural Engineering and Global Innovation Design.
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