Solicitor as executor - who should choose?

[Marlburian]

Is it better to appoint a solicitor as executor in one's will (the firm that drew it up, in my case) or leave it to one's "family" executors to chose one? One will be necessary to sort out my affairs, and I have no established relationship with any firm.

[Marlburian]

No replies, but I've just started a couple of other threads about a will drawn up in 2000 in which (as my request) the solicitors are named as executors,together with a cousin and best friend. In one of the threads I doubt by implication the need for the will to run to 28 pages.

Since writing the first post above, one executor (the lead one) has expressed a preference to choose his own solicitor to carry out probate. (I am currently drawing up a new will.)