• Trust and Estate Planning
• Trust and Estate Administration
• Succession Planning
• Trust Litigation
• Taxation
• Employee Benefits
• Corporate Law

• Has over 25 years of experience in handling all aspects of trust and estate planning and administration.
• Counsels individuals and families in structuring various methods of achieving financial goals and the distribution of wealth.
• Designs and implements various estate planning arrangements for clients utilizing revocable and irrevocable trusts, family partnerships and limited liability companies.
• Develops tax planning strategies to reduce, defer or eliminate the imposition of federal and/or state transfer taxes.
• Consults with business owners to structure and implement business succession plans.

AV Rated - Martindale-Hubbell

Named to Best Lawyers in America, Trusts and Estates, Woodward/White (2001-2008)

Named an "Ohio Super Lawyer" in a survey of Ohio lawyers by Law & Politics and Cincinnati magazines (January 2004-2008)

Selected as a "Leading Lawyer" in Northeast Ohio in a survey of lawyers by Inside Business magazine (December 2001-2008)

Named a "Top Lawyer" by Northern Ohio Live magazine (August 2003)

Frequent speaker at professional seminars: Cleveland Bar Association Estate Planning Institute; Akron Bar Association Probate Law Seminar; and the Internal Revenue Service Cleveland District Directors' Conference on Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation

American Bar Association (Taxation, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and Entertainment and Sports Law Sections)

Ohio State Bar Association (Estate Planning and Probate Law Section)

Florida Bar Association (Estate Planning and Probate Law Section)

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Fellow

Estate Planning Council of Cleveland

Cleveland Society of Estate Analysts