Global practice group; wealth planning, estates, succession and trusts team.

Head of elder law. Partner dealing with probate, succession and post-death tax planning; trust management; elderly client and Court of Protection work. Current holder of the STEP Elderly. Client Law Professional of the Year award.

Articled Withers; qualified 1987; partner since 1993; contributor to ‘Practical Will Precedents’ (Sweet and Maxwell); ‘Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents’ (Butterworths); editorial board ‘Elder Law Journal’ (Jordans); consultant editor and contributor ‘Finance & Law for the Older Client’ (Tolley); contributor ‘Elderly Client Handbook’ (Law Society). Julia is a contributor to International Protection of Adults to be published by Oxford University Press.

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), council member; chair STEP Mental Capacity Special Interest Group; member of US National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Inc; Medico Legal Society; Solicitors for the Elderly; Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists.

Kendal High School; St Hilda’s College, Oxford (MA Jurisprudence); Lancaster Gate College of Law.