Meet Our Principal

Anne Stephenson,  principal of Stephenson Solicitors, is a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners – the professional body for trust and estate practitioners worldwide) and of the Law Society’s Probate Administration and Trust Committee of which she is a former chair, the Probate Committee of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association and the Probate Liaison Committee (made up of representatives of the profession and of the Court Service involved with the Probate process). Anne has practiced and taught law for more than 35 years.

Anne is a member of the associate faculty and external examiner of the Law School of the Law Society of Ireland for trainee solicitors. She lectures and examines on the STEP Diploma in Wills Trust & Estate Planning, and on the Law Society’s Continuing Legal Education Courses, and to the DSBA and numerous other professional bodies. 

Anne is the co-founder of Solicitors for the Elderly Ireland.

Anne is a co-author of the following Oxford University Press books

She also contributes to the Law Society Gazette, the Parchment, and the Irish Tax Review.

Anne leads the successful bi-annual Stephenson Solicitors’ Seminar series which is in its 23rd year, and regularly attracts large numbers of professional and institutional attendees to consider issues of interest in the field of Wills, Trusts, Capital Taxes, and Estate Law and Practice.  She has also been an invited speaker at various professional conventions (for example addressing the medical professions on mental capacity). Anne is also a member of DSBA Mental Health Committee.

In her practice, Anne has been retained by major financial institutions, private clients, and other professional legal and financial firms both within Ireland and overseas to provide advice and services in the areas of Wills, Trusts, Capital Taxes, Estate Planning, Probate, and the Administration of Estates.