UK-based will writing and estate planning document drafting software. Arken Professional is the core product — a cloud-based SaaS tool with wizard-style guided drafting for wills, LPAs, and associated estate planning documents under English and Scottish law. Arken Online Wills is a separate client-facing module for simple will completion with firm branding. Claims ‘10x faster’ than manual methods (vendor claim, no benchmark methodology disclosed). Successor to DPL Professional, established May 2018. CEO Dave Newick. Company No. 2690082, Westerham, England. Free trial available; subscription pricing unknown. Help content and YouTube videos available for onboarding. Featured in Legal Futures (Apr 2022, most independent source). Today’s Wills and Probate is a paid partner listing, not independent editorial. SoftwareFinder listing (Nov 2025) has no aggregated reviews. Attended Law Society’s Private Client Annual Conference (May 2025). Has a podcast (Business Broadcasts). Value proposition is deeply UK-jurisdiction-specific — estate planning document requirements, intestacy rules, and LPA regulations differ fundamentally across jurisdictions. Not applicable for in-house legal departments.
Company Info
- Founded: 2018 (successor to DPL Professional)
- HQ: Westerham, England (Company No. 2690082)
- CEO: Dave Newick
- Product: Arken Professional
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Workflows
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What practitioners struggle with
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Small firm creates the same lease, will, motion to dismiss, or discovery request from scratch every time — no forms library, no document automation, and setting up templates in most PM tools requires a consultant
Solo/small attorney sees the market moving toward flat-fee unbundled legal services (estate plans, LLC formations, uncontested divorces) but can't build client-facing intake-to-document-to-payment workflows without custom software development or expensive consultants — the gap between 'I know this should be automated' and actually doing it is too wide
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