How can I find a law firm/solicitors I was a customer of, that seems to have

[andy m]

disappeared completely? The situation is that my friend used a law firm/solicitor called 'Morgan Cooper Law' around 6-10 years ago to create her will. This firm was based in Beccles, Suffolk.

She has only got a photocopy of her will and not the actual document, but when she tried to contact them they were gone. I have searched everywhere for them - calling The Law Society and Companies House. Neither have any record of them.

It appears they disbanded, as they seemed to just disappear around five years ago.

The firm never contacted my friend to say they had disbanded and passed her information on to another firm, so she has no idea who to contact or how to find out who now has her will on record. She has moved house in that time, but she has no way of getting any mail sent to the old address.

Does anyone know how I can find out for her who has her will and also how I could go about finding out how I can get in contact with a represantative of the initial Morgan Cooper Law firm who she created the will with at the start?

 

[eriverpipe]

Is it possible your friend meant Norton Cooper? If so they may now be Norton Peskett of Exchange Square Beccles - there was a partner there called Cooper who retired at the end of the 1980s and became Norton Peskett in 1996.

 

[Dataman]

I find it a bit puzzling that the Law Society have no record of this firm. That, I would have thought, is quite extraordinary. Is it possible that your friend's memory of the name is faulty?

Does she remember the name of the solicitor who actually dealt with her will? The Law Society should be able to trace this person.

Alternatively, if she has a photocopy of the will, she could write it out again, and sign it in the presence of two witnesses, who are not beneficiaries. The new will then supersedes the old one, even though there is no change between them.