Wills Trusts & Probate Department

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Tracy Creed

Head of Department, Partner, Solicitor
Wills Trusts & Probate

Tracy is a partner and Head of Private Client Services Team at Sydney Mitchell. She has extensive experience in all areas of Private Client work including:

  • Care funding issues
  • Continuing health care
  • Trusts
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Shelley Collingbourne

Partner, Solicitor
Wills Trusts & Probate

Shelley is a Partner and leads the Private Client team in the Sheldon office.  She began her law career at Sydney Mitchell straight from school working in a number of different departments before becoming a Wills Clerk and moving on to deal with

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Lorna Payne

Solicitor, Senior Associate
Wills Trusts & Probate

Lorna is a Senior Associate in the Private Client Team.

Lorna assists private clients and advises on wills, powers of attorney and tax planning.  She also deals with applications for grants of probates and administering estates and advises

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Gillian Hassaine

Probate Practitioner, Wills Administrator
Wills Trusts & Probate

Gillian deals with the Administration of Estates and Trusts and the preparation of Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney.  She believes that she empathises with her clients from all walks of life and gives them achieve a sense of assurance on a
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Jessica Ball

Paralegal
Wills Trusts & Probate

Jess is a paralegal in our private client team.

Jess is passionate about ensuring her clients feel at ease when discussing sensitive matters. She has worked in private client since 2021 and has experience with Wills, Probate and Court of

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Kim Hopkins

FCILEx, Legal Executive, Senior Legal Executive
Wills Trusts & Probate

Kim is a Senior Cilex and member of the Private Client team and assists clients on a wide variety of matters including preparation of Wills and Powers of Attorney.

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Charlotte Jones

Associate, Solicitor
Wills Trusts & Probate

Charlotte is an Associate Solicitor and a qualified Trust & Estates Practitioner.  Charlotte is a member of the Private Client team based in the Shirley office.   Charlotte focuses on assisting clients on a wide variety of private client

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Samantha Elsmore

Legal Assistant, Probate Practitioner, Wills Administrator
Wills Trusts & Probate

Samantha Elsmore (nee Hughes) is a Private Client Practitioner in the Private Client Department assisting clients with a wide variety of matters including dealing with estate administration and the preparation of Lasting Powers of Attorney and

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Lucy Mitchell

Paralegal
Wills Trusts & Probate

Lucy has worked in the legal profession for many years, previously assisting fee earners in a wide range of private client services.  She now specialises in Continuing Healthcare work, providing clients with advice relating to applications,

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Megan Heger

Wills Assistant
Wills Trusts & Probate

Megan is an experienced Paralegal. She started her career in law while simultaneously studying for her Masters in 2017.  She has experience in different disciplines including conveyancing, immigration and private client work. After graduating,

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Patrick Cunnington

Paralegal
Wills Trusts & Probate

Often later life planning can be a very stressful experience and Patrick aims to make this process as straight forward and hassle free as possible for all involved. He strives to put his clients at ease and foster a collaborative relationship

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Katie Fitzpatrick

Wills Assistant
Wills Trusts & Probate

Katie is a Wills Assistant in our Private Client Team based in Shirley.

Katie graduated from Liverpool John Moores in the height of the pandemic with a 2:1 in law. Since then, she has worked within Private Client focusing primarily on

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