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About Us

Our Story
 

Trusted Law was founded by Natalie Chapman in 2013, although it wasn’t always named this! Find out more below.

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Where it all began.

Prior to the arrival of our twins, I was working in Property Law for an international law firm, studying towards my Legal Executive qualification and my career was steadily progressing.

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Trusted-Wills was born

After completing my legal studies whilst on maternity leave, I discovered a consultancy role with the Society of Will Writers which developed into the opportunity to set up on own company.

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The big move to Norfolk

For the second time in my life, my husband Darren asked that we move back to Norfolk where he was born and raised. He wanted our twins to have a similar upbringing.

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The company growth.

The busier I became with clients, the sooner I realised that I needed to grow the company and build a small team around me.

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Where it all began.

My name is Natalie Chapman and I am the founder and Managing Director of Trusted Law Ltd, plus a Mum to our beautiful twins and wife to Darren.

Prior to the twins arriving, my life was pretty ‘normal’. I was working in Property Law for a big international law firm, studying towards my Legal Executive qualification and my career was progressing steadily. I always thought that I would simply work within law firms, being a ‘working mum’ when I did eventually have children, and steadily work my way up the ranks – I didn’t really know any different.

Once I fell pregnant in 2011, my views didn’t really change and I even booked them a place at the local nursery when I was still pregnant.

But, as soon as the twins arrived everything changed!

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I decided that I no longer wanted to work all of those long hours in the office, but I didn’t want to be a ‘stay at home mum’ either. After much discussion with Darren, we agreed that I wouldn’t return to the law firm but I would remain at home with the twins on the provision that I finished my Legal Executive qualification – and of course, we had to make other financial adjustments to cater for this too, including moving back to Lincoln.

I remember starting my studies when the twins were around 4 months old and I sat my final exam about 12 months later – that was one of the hardest times in my life!! I basically studied every minute that the twins slept, the house was a mess and poor Darren hardly saw me!

It was all worth it though, as I passed all of my exams and obtained my Level 6 Diploma in Law and Practice qualification.

After this, I was finally enjoying the time off with the twins but it didn’t take long for me to realise that I was missing the intellectual side of work.

Where it all began
Trusted Wills was Born

Trusted-Wills was born.

After some research, I discovered a role with a sister company of The Society of Will Writers and soon realised that I could possibly have my cake and eat it……..I could stay at home with the twins and work on a career in an area that I have now actually qualified and trained in.

Shortly afterwards I was given the opportunity to set up my own business and become a member of the Society of Will Writers which is when Trusted-Wills.co.uk was born.

I started to slowly build my reputation and clients in Lincoln, predominantly visiting them in the evenings and at the weekends. I quickly discovered that actually this is exactly when clients wanted to see me as they didn’t have to take time off work or be juggling their kids during the appointment – definitely a win win!

The ‘big’ move – Norfolk bound.

Our family decided to move back to Norfolk in August 2014 and it was time for me to build the business here in Norfolk. After settling the twins into nursery and the new area, I had to dedicate some time to establishing Trusted-Wills in the local area.

I realised quite quickly that Norfolk businesses were very keen on networking and most Norfolk people like to ‘buy local’. I attended some networking events, met some awesome people, gained some wonderful clients and Trusted-Wills started to take shape and evolve.

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After a few years of building Trusted-Wills, sadly some of my clients passed away and their families approached me to help with the Probate. Of course, I wanted to continue to support those families during those difficult times.

In August 2016, I made the decision to change Trusted-Wills from a sole trader company to a Limited Company; Trusted Wills & Probate Ltd was born – trading as both Trusted-Wills and Trusted-Probate here in Norfolk.

After a fantastic year for Trusted Wills & Probate Ltd, I soon realised that there simply wasn’t enough time for me to support all of the clients that were approaching me and I had to start thinking about growing a team around me.

The big move
Growth

The company growth – Trusted Law Ltd

In January 2018, I launched a new company name of Trusted Law Ltd, I made some small changes to our logo (can you spot it?) and literature and started to grow a small team around me.

Trusted Law Logo

 

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In addition, we opened our first office (excluding the business centre we used) in January 2020 and finally had a ‘front door’ in Wymondham, Norfolk.

Our office is conveniently placed in the centre of Wymondham and is mostly used by myself and our office based team as everyone else is busy visiting clients at their homes.

In summary……

So as you can see my life has completely changed since having the twins. I have gone from working at a big international law firm Monday-Friday (plus overtime!) to having my own successful business to develop and grow.

Setting up Trusted Law enabled me to stay at home to look after my twins in their early years and continue with my legal career. It has been, and continues to be, extremely hard work but I am enjoying the whole experience. I have always enjoyed meeting and getting to know new people so this seems like the perfect combination.

Thank you for reading my journey!

Natalie