A Sentinel estate plan typically takes four to six weeks. Not because the drafting is difficult — although sometimes it is — but because we insist on time. Time to understand the family before advising it. Time to draft, then set aside, then reread. Time for the client to sit with a document and return with questions.
Sentinel is deliberately a practice of one. Julian Russell conducts every consultation and remains your single point of contact from first meeting to final signing. The practice is remote-first — consultations by video or telephone, papers by post — which keeps overheads low and fees honest.
Estate planning, done well, is a lifetime relationship. That is the practice we set out to build.
We take the time others don't. Slow drafting is the shortest path to a document that will last.
Fees quoted at the outset, in writing, with any variation discussed before it is incurred.
One advisor, one relationship. The person you meet first is the person who signs off your documents.
Unaffiliated with any bank, insurer, or product provider — advice with nothing behind it but your interests.
"The best legal documents feel obvious in retrospect. Reaching that clarity is the discipline of the practice."
From the first phone call to the signed documents, you deal with Julian. No junior handovers, no unnamed teams behind the scenes.
Julian founded Sentinel Legacy in 2026 to do private client estate planning — wills, trusts, and lasting powers of attorney — the way he believed it should be done: personally, patiently, and at a fair, fixed fee.
The practice is remote-first. Julian works with clients across the United Kingdom by video and telephone, with home visits by arrangement — and stays your point of contact from the first conversation to the final signing.
The best estate planning conversations start well before they are strictly needed. If you're considering putting arrangements in place — for yourself, your parents, or your children — please be in touch.
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