Demeter Legal

Estate planning lawyers are a special breed 🤪

People often ask me how I can spend my time having conversations about death day in and day out.

Certainly, my decade+ of experience helps.

But I'd say that these qualities definitely make it easier:

🥰 my empathy is my superpower. I've seen, heard, and experienced a lot over my 42 years, and I hold space for my clients to be vulnerable.

👻 much like doctors, us 'death lawyers' develop a fairly dark sense of humour as a bit of a coping mechanism. Or maybe we're just born with it and gravitate to the work 🤷 😉

🎨 every person is unique and requires bespoke elements to their estate plan. Coming up with creative solutions is a big part of the joy of this work.

✅️ using checklists and really good precedents means we can focus on being human, because we know we've got the essentials covered. Shoutout to and who make me a better estate planning lawyer.

📑 legislation changes all the time, and there's always new case law to get your head around. Good estate planning lawyers know what they don't know, and spend time upskilling regularly.

🫖 finally, I don't know an estate planning lawyer who isn't a little bit nosy! But it serves a purpose: getting to know you, your family, your hopes, and fears is all part of the process of crafting a legacy protecting estate plan.