Wills and probate support for UK firms
Probate work is administrative in the most demanding sense: long, exacting, and unforgiving of small errors. A lawyer placed through Singularity works full time on will drafting support, estate administration, probate application preparation and the asset and tax paperwork behind them.
They are qualified South African attorneys working under your supervision, with your authorised lawyers advising clients and carrying out anything reserved.
What the work looks like
Case and matter work
- Will drafting support to your precedents
- Probate application preparation
- Estate administration and asset schedules
- Inheritance tax paperwork preparation
- Estate accounts preparation
- Research on estate and succession points
Client and operational
- Correspondence with beneficiaries, banks and institutions
- Asset tracing enquiries and follow-ups
- File progression and deadline management
- Matter records and document management
- General fee-earner support across the estate caseload
Long files need someone who stays
An estate can run for a year or more, and every handover costs the file. A full-time hire who remains on the matter from grant to distribution is worth more than the same hours split across a rotating cast, which is one reason firms who try this model in probate tend to hire again.
How the hire works
You tell us the seat you need filled. We search our network of more than a thousand South African lawyers and put forward a small shortlist, every candidate already scrutinised and interviewed by the lawyers on our own team. You interview them and choose. The search costs you nothing, there is no recruitment fee and no lock-in, and we replace the lawyer whenever you ask, whatever the reason. Your first hire through Singularity carries thirty days at our risk: if it is not a success you pay nothing for the month, and we still pay the lawyer.
Bring the seat you are struggling to fill.
Twenty minutes, no deck, no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Book a 20-minute callYour first placement starts with thirty days at our risk, not yours.