Wills as an employee benefit
A will, written by a solicitor, offered to your staff as a benefit. Straightforward to set up, and run again each time you take new people on.
A benefits package puts making a will in front of employees as a practical next step, and it reaches people at the point in life when it matters most: a first house, a first child, a second marriage.
What you have to do
We run the sessions, take the instructions, draft the documents and deal with each employee directly. You are not in the middle of it, and you never see what anyone's will says. What you get back is a record of take-up, and nothing else.
Setting it up
Tell us roughly how many employees are in scope and what you would like to include. We come back with a fixed price per employee and a plan for the sessions, and we can run a pilot with one team before you commit to the whole workforce.
Whose client the employee is
Employees are clients of AD Solicitors Limited, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under number 8011228. What they tell us is confidential and privileged, they can complain to us and then to the Legal Ombudsman, and the firm's indemnity insurance meets the SRA's minimum terms. Those protections belong to them, and we make that clear to every employee at the outset.
How it works for you
A fixed price per employee
Agreed with you up front for whichever services you want to include. Employees who want something more complex are quoted separately and pay the difference themselves.
A forty-five minute session
Forty-five minutes, in person or online, led by a solicitor. What a will does, what happens without one, and what to think about before the meeting.
Appointments that fit around work
Instructions taken by video or telephone, including outside office hours, so nobody has to take a day off to make a will.
Confidential to the employee
The employee is our client. What they tell us is covered by legal professional privilege and is never reported back to you.
What you are told
You get numbers — invited, booked, completed — so you can show the benefit is being used. You do not get names attached to content.
The same firm afterwards
Employees keep the relationship. If they need probate, a review after a life change or advice on a power of attorney for a parent, they come back to a firm that already knows them.
How it runs
You decide the scope
Which staff are eligible, whether partners are included, and whether the company pays in full or the employee contributes. We price it against the headcount you give us.
We come to you
A session at your premises or online explaining what a will does and what happens without one, then private appointments booked directly by each member of staff.
Each will is their own
The employee instructs us in their own right and is our client. What they tell us is confidential and stays that way, and you see only that they attended.
You get one invoice
One bill for the firm at the agreed rate, with no per-employee administration for your payroll or HR team to carry.
Why employers put this in a benefits package
It reaches people a pension or a gym membership does not. The staff who most need a will are usually the ones who have never got round to making one: new parents, people who have just bought a house, anybody with children from an earlier relationship. Most of them know they should and have no idea where to start.
It also costs a fraction of the benefits that get more attention, and it is one of the few that a member of staff will remember telling their family about. Where an employer already offers life cover, it pairs with it: a death in service payment that reaches the wrong person because a nomination was never updated is a common and avoidable outcome.
Confidentiality is what makes it work. Each employee instructs us in their own right, so nothing they tell us reaches their employer. That is also what keeps it a benefit, and stops it feeling like a corporate exercise.
Talk to us about your benefits package
Tell us the size of the workforce and what you have in mind, and we will come back with a price and a plan.