Editorial shortlist / 2026
A supplied editorial shortlist focused on Certificate of Appointment applications, executor guidance, intestate estates, estate administration, probate tax issues, asset distribution, and trustee duties—not just will drafting. Use it as a research starting point, not an objective ranking.
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Probate is administration, not just drafting.
A valid will, intestacy, executor duty, court appointment, tax issue, or complex asset mix can change the work involved. Confirm the estate’s stage and urgency directly.
Ten profiles to consider
Gowling WLG
Probate / estate administration / intestacy / trustee dutiesThe supplied research note describes probate, intestacy, estate administration, estate accounting, court appointments, trustee obligations, and estate transmissions. Confirm current role, focus, and recognition directly with the linked professional source.
Mann Lawyers
Probate applications / executors / complex estatesThe supplied research note describes wills, trusts, incapacity planning, estate administration, probate applications, executor support, asset distribution, fiduciary duties, private-company shares, and foreign assets. Confirm current role, designation, and focus directly with the linked professional source.
Soloway Wright LLP
Estate administration / probate / executor support / taxThe supplied research note describes estate administration, probate planning, executor support, passings of accounts, and tax work through Soloway Wright's estate planning and administration groups. Confirm current role and practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
McGuinty Estates Law
Probate / estate administration / executor services / trustsThe supplied research note describes a practice focused on estates and trusts law, including probate applications, estate administration, executor services, asset distribution, and trust administration. Confirm current role and services directly with the linked professional source.
Mann Lawyers
Estate administration / probate / executor guidanceThe supplied research note describes estate planning and administration, probate-related responsibilities, and Mann Lawyers' estate-administration team. Confirm current role, membership, and practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP
Estate administration / intestacy / trusts / probate issuesThe supplied research note describes wills, trusts, estates, intestacies, administration bonds, estate and trust interpretation, passing of accounts, and related administration issues. Confirm current role, focus, and recognition directly with the linked professional source.
Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP
Complex estate administration / trust administrationThe supplied research note describes leadership of Perley-Robertson's Personal Legal Needs and Estate Planning & Administration groups, prior trust-advisor experience, and complex estate and trust administration. Confirm current role and focus directly with the linked professional source.
Solomon, Boileau & Associates
Probate applications / estate administration / intestate estatesThe supplied research note describes probate and estate-administration services, Certificate of Appointment applications where a valid will exists or where someone dies intestate, and assistance with estate assets, debts, taxes, and distribution. Confirm current role and services directly with the linked professional source.
Mann Lawyers
Probate applications / estate administration / executor dutiesThe supplied research note describes estate administration, executor and trustee support, probate applications, asset distribution, estate responsibilities, and related estate disputes. Confirm current role and focus directly with the linked professional source.
Mann Lawyers
Probate / estate administration / wills and trustsThe supplied research note describes trusts, estate administration, Mann's estate-administration team, and writing about the Ontario probate process and Certificate of Appointment applications. Confirm current role and practice focus directly with the linked professional source.
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