Wills

Hourly rates of solicitors vary. High street ones run at lower overheads than City ones. £400 will not buy you an hour of a corporate law partner in a major firm but could buy four or five hours of a probate lawyer in a High Street firm, which is probably what it would take to do you will. They will then store it for you and act as executor. They will probably charge the estate for the executor thing but charge nothing for storage. Solicitors are cheaper than banks for simple executor roles. Banks charge a percentage which for a simple estate but valuable can be very high. Solicitors generally by the hour. Call around and ask for quotes or do the Willaid thing mentioned above.

Cheers. I've had various dealings with them in the past, and always been very happy with them, so as that's a reasonable rate, I'll go with them.