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InfoTrack to expand into wills and probate
Property technology company InfoTrack has acquired a New Zealand-based tech start-up as part of an expansion of its offerings into the family law, wills, estates and probate spaces.
Jerome Doraisamy
On Friday morning, InfoTrack announced it had acquired WillNotice, which was launched two years ago in New Zealand and was specifically designed for wills and estates lawyers to automatically match death notices to wills.
Speaking about the acquisition, InfoTrack CEO John Ahern (pictured) said it formed part of the company’s strategic plan to “replicate the success we’ve had in property law and conveyancing” in the family law, wills, estates and probate spaces.
“With Australia’s ageing population climbing, the business of wills, estates and probate is a growing area of practice,” he noted.
“In June 2019, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the number of people aged 85 years and over increased by 117.1 per cent over the last two decades, compared with a total population growth of 34.8 per cent over the same period. InfoTrack is currently developing multiple market-first solutions to help lawyers with achieving increased efficiencies in these growing practice areas.”
New Zealand country manager Dennis Wade added: “WillNotice already has steady take-up in New Zealand. We’re excited about connecting it to the InfoTrack platform, initially offering it to our New Zealand clients and integrating it to our partner practice management systems.”
Stuart Bale, who founded WillNotice in 2017 via the New Zealand Law Society, said he was “very excited” to partner with InfoTrack.
“My goal when I built this solution was to make it easier for lawyers to know when to contact a client about a death notice, and from there, I wanted to prove the tech worked and build adoption of the product,” he said.
Mr Bale will work in conjunction with Mr Ahern to provide advisory support to InfoTrack’s New Zealand and Australian teams.
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. A former lawyer, he has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. He is also the host of all five shows under The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network, and has overseen the brand's audio medium growth from 4,000 downloads per month to over 60,000 downloads per month, making The Lawyers Weekly Show the most popular industry-specific podcast in Australia. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of Minds Count.
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