Training and Coaching
Would your private client team benefit from some tailored technical training?
Is cross-selling across your office routinely happening - and if not, why not?
Are all your lawyers delivering outstanding levels of client service?
I have spent more than 35 years in the legal profession - 11 years in legal education and 26 as a practising private client solicitor acting for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals and families, building successful private client departments and training my own teams.
I believe this combination of practitioner and educator gives me a unique perspective on how I could help you with your in-house training and coaching.
Technical training in private client law
Technical courses covering the full range of private client law and at all levels - from Will drafting and IHT mitigation to trustees' powers and lifetime trusts.
Available off-the-shelf or created specifically for your team, delivered at your office/offices or online.
Explore trainingProfessional skills for lawyers and their teams
Courses on cross-selling, networking, exceptional client service, and active listening to help lawyers across all service lines add value to existing clients and win new work.
Available off-the-shelf or tailored to your team, in your offices or online.
Explore trainingMediation
Are you advising on an estate or trust dispute that may benefit from mediation?
Do you need a mediator with deep private client subject-matter knowledge — not just process expertise?
Lawyers recommending a mediator to their clients want two things: confidence that the matter will be handled competently, and confidence that the recommendation will reflect well on them.
Viv brings 26 years acting for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals and families which means she enters the mediation room already fluent in the substance of estate, trust, and inheritance disputes and able to engage with the technical positions of the parties' lawyers on an equal footing.
Ranked individually in Band 1 of Chambers High Net Worth Guide (Leeds, Bradford and surrounds) since 2021 and a Legal 500 Leading Individual — Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate (Yorkshire)since 2020, and a CEDR accredited mediator since 2024.
CEDR accredited mediation for estate and trust disputes
Estate and trust disputes can benefit from a mediator with substantive subject matter knowledge. Viv's 26 year background as a private client solicitor means she brings genuine legal depth to the mediation room, not just process expertise.
Explore mediationConferences
Are you organising a private client conference and looking for an experienced solicitor speaker?
Do you need a speaker who can address recent changes in estate, trust, or tax law with practical clarity?
Conference organisers and CPD providers want a speaker who has lived the material — not someone delivering a textbook reading. An audience of practitioners can tell the difference within minutes.
With 26 years of private client practice and 11 years in legal education, Viv speaks on the substantive issues she has spent her career advising on — from the inheritance tax business property relief rules and cross-border succession to lifetime trust structures and inheritance tax planning for high net worth families.
Available for in-person and on-line events, panels, and CPD seminars across the profession.
Speaking on private client law
Recurring talks cover Will drafting, business property relief changes, planning and optimisation, inheritance tax planning for high net worth families, lifetime trust structures, and cross-border estates. Available for organisations, CPD providers, and law firm in-house events.
Explore conferencesWhat the directories say
“Vivienne is a brilliant lawyer. Vivienne is a fantastic person to know and deal with. Vivienne understands my situation and desired outcomes.”
“Vivienne Wild's extensive knowledge of trusts is invaluable, and she explained complicated tax matters in plain and understandable terms.”
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