Private Client
Client Meetings for Lifetime Planning and Executries
On Demand
Webinar
Client Meetings for Lifetime Planning and Executries: how to create opportunity and minimise risk
On Demand
Speaker: Alan Eccles
Webinar
The initial meeting with a new client or existing client for a review or new piece of work is critical. This seminar will consider the risk and opportunity in those meetings to help attendees best cover the range of issues that can crop up … including issues the clients don’t think they are coming to talk about but which the lawyer should and needs to cover. We will also look at the importance of the initial meeting in an executry including topics to be covered, information to be gathered and the vital early advice executors need to be given in different types of estate.
This seminar will cover the following:
We will also cover areas the lawyer might not advise on – how to manage the risk and help the client:
The event begins at 2pm. Delegate registration is open from 1:30pm.
Alan's work covers three main areas: charities, private client and parliamentary matters.
Alan's private client work covers estate planning including wills, executries, trusts and inheritance tax. He is the author of the Scotland chapter in the textbook International Succession. As part of his private client advice Alan often advises on incapacity law (powers of attorney, court appointed guardianship and other methods of managing the affairs of those less able to do so). This has involved acting in some of the leading Sottish cases on incapacity law and estate and succession planning. A regular commentator on incapacity law matters, Alan's written work has been referred to in judicial decision making. Of Alan's private client work, the Legal 500 notes that he "conveys complicated legal concepts with clarity and humour".
He was previously a member of the legal staff at the Scottish Law Commission and currently lectures at the University of Strathclyde in property, trusts and charities. Alan has also tutored private client law at the University of Glasgow.
Alan was a member of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland from 2007 to 2009 and the Society's Education and Training Committee from 2007 to 2012. He is currently a member of the Society's Charity Law and Mental Health and Disability Law Committees.
