A Stratford lawyer is celebrating a career success after becoming a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the industry body which focuses on professional development for those specialising in family inheritance and succession planning.
For Laura Eaves, an associate with Lodders Solicitors, obtaining the Society’s diploma is the culmination of four exams and two years of study.
“I’m very pleased,” she said. “It was hard work but the qualification is both important and well recognised.
“I find this area of the law particularly rewarding because you tend to be helping people often at one of the most difficult times of their lives.”
Ms Eaves joined Lodders as a trainee in 2006 and qualified in 2008.
A member of the Stratford-upon-Avon litigation team within the private client department, her role involves contentious trusts, disputed estates and inheritance claims as well as general wills and probate.