An exceptional lawyer with a personal approach

Clare Harris

Head of Wealth Preservation & Partner

ceharris@greenwoods.co.uk

Clare heads up the Wealth Preservation team and prides herself in supporting her clients at vulnerable times, bringing humour and warmth to her client interactions. She appreciates that all clients are different and adapts her knowledge and skills to fit in with each individual client’s needs and objectives.

Clare has a wide range of clients from all backgrounds, which leads to a breadth of experience and knowledge.

Clare also works with a large network of professional contacts and encourages co-ordination between clients, their financial advisors and accountants in order to achieve the best possible result when considering estate planning and wealth protection.

Testimonials

“Down to earth, experienced and friendly.”

(Legal 500 2021)

“Clare Harris is a pleasure to work with.”

(Legal 500 2022)

“We have worked with Clare Harris for several years and she strives to understand our needs of the wider family, to enable us to plan effectively and goes the extra mile. This enables her to recommend options and suggest ideas which benefit the whole family.”

(Private Client)

Case studies

Advising farming family on succession planning

Undertaking Wills and estate planning.

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Extensive inheritance and asset protection planning

Advising clients in respect of Wills, LPAs, capacity issues and lifetime gifting.

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Clare deals with all aspects of Private Client work relating to death and mental capacity, whether that be wills, probate and estate administration, lasting powers of attorney or the creation of trusts. She is highly regarded.

She provides general succession, inheritance tax and asset protection planning to multiple generations of families as well as creating and administering onshore trusts and providing advice to trustees.

She also prepares and registers Lasting Powers of Attorney with the Office of the Public Guardian and is happy to assess capacity and act as a certificate provider.

Clare is a qualified “TEP” (Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner)

She is a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association (ALA)

She received the Advanced Certificate in Advising the Family Business in 2023, achieving a distinction.

She is a recommended individual in the Legal 500 2023 guide.

Clare Harris

Case studies

Advising farming family on succession planning

Extensive inheritance and asset protection planning

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