What to do with Digital Remains After Death

Presenter: Dylan O'Brien from Be Prepared

Session Outline:
The average person has over 90 online accounts, and in 10 years it will be 200. We are already seeing the big stories in the media - "hundreds of millions of dollars in cyrpto-currency trapped inside PC's" - and we're sure you've heard similar stories from lawyers you know: most of our receipts and subscriptions go to our email accounts... but Apple, Google and Microsoft don't provide access to your accounts after your gone, people leave behind passwords... but their multi-factor authentication is on their phone, our legal contracts are now in the cloud and our hard drives are encrypted.

Documents can be stored anywhere, and it can take 6 months to get new copies. It can now take years to wrap up estates that could be done within weeks.

The Solution? BePrepared - a secure, white-label platform that helps estate and trustee firms deliver a comprehensive (and modern) service, by providing a secure system to manage and distribute a client's digital assets after they pass away.

Key Takeaways from the session;
  • This isn't a fad. The future is digital, and it's here to stay.
  • The legal profession is slow to change, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
  • To keep their businesses alive and competitive
  • Wills and Estate lawyers must be able to handle the digital assets of their clients or they'll go elsewhere
  • Do NOT recommend your clients to use password managers or google docs to store important data.
About the Presenter:
Dylan O'Brien is the CEO and founder of BePrepared. He has a degree in psychology and is a 3rd time founder.

BePrepared is a secure cloud-platform that helps estate lawyers, financial planners and trustees deliver a comprehensive and modern service, by providing a secure system to manage and distribute a client's digital assets after they pass away.

w: bepreparedapp.com/for-clients
l: linkedin.com/in/dylannobrien
m: +61 431 424 520
e: d@prepared.ly

1 CPD Pt - Practice Management + Business Skills + Professional Skills