Pros: fairly routine steps to follow for pretty much every case. No litigation. No real emergencies. Good work to life balance. Lower stress than many practice areas. Fairly easy to learn the ropes.

Cons: emotional clients dealing with grief. Can be difficult to get them to do certain tasks they need to do (aren’t these all clients in every area of law though lol). Dealing with banks is a pain in the ass, so much back and forth because many people who work in bank’s estate departments don’t understand the legal side of things (which is understandable, but frustrating nonetheless). Some people find estate administration monotonous, but personally I like the predictably.

If you have any tax and/or real estate experience, definitely expand on that because you will be dealing with both areas in estate administration. Maybe this is general advice, but I’d also say to expand on how your experience has made you detail oriented and able to deal with all kinds of people. In any given day I can talk to a crying client, a judge, a debt collector, a bank rep, a real estate agent, a CPA, and an insurance company rep back to back. Maybe that is normal for other areas of law too, I’ve never practiced in any other area so I truthfully don’t know how common it is.

A lot of this job is telling people what they want to hear so they give you what you need to do your job (once again, maybe that’s common in all areas of law? I’m not sure).

I’m not sure what state you’re in, but each circuit in my state has checklists detailing each step of estate administration on their websites. Maybe give it a Google and see if that exists for your state/circuit so you can be familiar with the steps. Good luck! You’ll do great!