A personal legal service
Clear, careful support for important decisions.
How Elephant Legal works
Elephant Legal takes a personal approach to legal services.
Legal work often sits alongside significant moments in life — decisions about family, responsibility, security, and the future. These are rarely just technical questions. They are shaped by relationships, experiences, values, and the things that matter most to someone, many of which cannot be measured financially.
Elephant Legal was created to provide clear, careful legal support in those moments. The work begins with listening, and with helping people understand their options before making decisions that affect their future.
Wills are currently the first and central service offered, but the underlying approach is wider than any single document. The aim is always to provide clarity, reassurance, and properly considered arrangements — not simply paperwork.
Elephant Legal is a legal services business providing non-reserved legal services, including will writing, in England and Wales. You can find full details about how the service is provided in our Regulatory Information.
Why this work matters
Important legal decisions are often approached with hesitation. They can feel complex, technical, or easy to postpone.
In practice, having clear arrangements in place can be unexpectedly steadying. Understanding what will happen — and why — often brings reassurance in the present, not just certainty for the future.
Elephant Legal exists to make that process clearer and more accessible: to create space for thoughtful conversations and careful planning, delivered at a pace that supports confidence rather than pressure.
How we approach our work
The focus is not on templates, but on shaping arrangements that reflect the individual and their circumstances.
Work begins with listening, followed by clear explanation of options and measured guidance. Advice is given calmly and carefully, allowing time for reflection before decisions are finalised.
Making space for what truly matters
What guides our work
Listen first
Every conversation starts with understanding your situation.
Careful drafting
Documents are prepared thoughtfully and reviewed for accuracy.
Clarity before decisions
Options are explained clearly, without jargon or pressure.
No shortcuts
The aim is correctness and confidence, not speed.
Time to think
Space is built in to reflect before anything is finalised.
Agreed next steps
If something needs thought, we pause and decide together.
Some things only reveal their value with time.
Why Elephant Legal was created
Not everything that matters feels important at the time. Some things only reveal their value later.
When my grandfather died in 2003, I inherited a clock. At the time, it seemed unremarkable. Years later, it now sits in my home, quietly marking time. What once felt small has become deeply meaningful.
Experiences like that stay with you. They highlight how difficult it can be to recognise what truly matters while you are still living your life — and how easily those things can be overlooked if there is not time, space, or guidance to reflect on them.
Elephant Legal was created to provide that space: to support careful conversations and to help people put clear, considered legal arrangements in place that reflect not just what they own, but what matters to them.
Who we are
Elephant Legal was set up by Richard Burt, whose work has long focused on supporting people and families through important decisions. With over twenty-five years of experience working closely with people in professional settings, he brings a considered understanding of how people think, what matters to them, and how to approach sensitive conversations with care and clarity. This practical experience is supported by formal legal study, including a Diploma in Law, providing a strong grounding in the legal principles relevant to the services offered.
Together, this combination of people-focused experience and legal understanding underpins a service that is measured, thoughtful, and focused on doing things properly — without unnecessary complexity, pressure, or overstatement.