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WILL AND DECEASED ESTATE LAWYERS SERVICING CLIENTS IN ALL QUEENSLAND BASED WILL AND DECEASED ESTATE MATTERS
Founded in 2012, The Estate Lawyers is a boutique law firm with our office in Brisbane and with a visited office on the Gold Coast in Queensland. We service clients in any Queensland based Will and estate matter. We can represent you if you reside in Queensland, interstate or overseas.
We were established for the sole purpose of providing specialised advice in all Queensland based Will and Deceased estate matters.
Our Will and Deceased estate lawyers have a particular passion for Deceased estate law, especially Deceased estate and trust litigation.
We don’t represent clients in any other legal matters. Instead, we choose to practice solely in estate law because it is our passion and is what our lawyers want to do.
THE ESTATE LAWYERS’ HISTORY
The Estate Lawyers was established in 2012, originally formed as the Wills and Deceased estates section of McCowans Solicitors. That firm, which was established in 1983, provided advice in relation to property and commercial matters, Will and estate law, family law and personal injury law.
The growth of the Will and Deceased estates section of McCowans Solicitors led to the original directors of The Estate Lawyers, Kent Dalziel, Ranald McCowan and Gerard Murphy agreeing to split the Will and Deceased estate section from McCowans Solicitors and create a new law firm, The Estate Lawyers.
McCowans Solicitors subsequently changed their name to The Personal Injury Lawyers. We were initially based on the Gold Coast in the offices of McCowans Solicitors but in 2013, after servicing both Brisbane and the Gold Coast before that time, The Estate Lawyers moved permanently to Brisbane.
Our lawyers maintain their Gold Coast contacts and regularly return to the Gold Coast to see their existing clients. Kent Dalziel, Ranald McCowan and Gerard Murphy remained the directors of The Estate Lawyers until 2021 when both Ranald McCowan and Gerard Murphy retired. Kent Dalziel is now the sole director of the firm.
WHY CHOOSE US AS YOUR LAWYERS FOR YOUR WILL OR DECEASED ESTATE MATTER?
WE SPECIALISE
We do not dabble. Our purpose is to provide you with the best advice and obtain for you the best results possible in any Will or Deceased estate matter. Therefore you will not be represented by a lawyer who knows a little about many things. Instead you will be represented by lawyers who practice in Deceased estate lawyers all day every day.
WE ARE A BOUTIQUE LAW FIRM
We do not want to be the biggest law firm in Brisbane. Instead, we want to remain as a boutique law firm whereby we are large enough for our Will and Deceased estate lawyers in Brisbane to provide specialist advice to our clients about Wills and Deceased estates. This allows us to act in large estate litigation matters, yet remain small enough to provide you with a personalised service that ensures that you as our client feel wanted and valued, rather than just being a number.
WE FIX OUR FEES
Most lawyers charge by the hour whereby your bill ends up being calculated by how long it takes the lawyer to do the job, rather than paying a fixed fee for the completion of the job. At The Estate Lawyers, we believe the time taken by the lawyer to complete the job should not be at your risk – it should be at the lawyer’s risk. Our Will and Deceased estate lawyers in Brisbane fix fees with you for any job before we commence work. We can do this because of our years of experience mean we know what work is needed in any estate law matter to provide cost certainty for our clients.
WE WIN TRIALS
As strange as it may sound, not many estate lawyers have Trial experience. This is because our legal system is designed to resolve Will and estate disputes by consent at settlement conferences before Trial. Our Directors have significant Trial experience because we refuse to settle for anything other than the best results in Deceased estate and trust litigation. We have never lost an estate dispute which we have taken to Trial and so if your case warrants heading to Trial, we will be pleased to take you there so we can win for you.