Let's choose executors and talk of wills.              Richard II, Act III, Scene ii

• Practice focus: Estate planning, estate and gift taxation, income taxation of trusts and estates, charitable giving and probate
• Joined Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP in August 2011
• Former Franklin County, Ohio Probate Court Judge (June 7-December 31, 2010); formerly associated with law firms in Columbus, Ohio, Norfolk, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois, with primary responsibility for estate planning for clients; former Assistant Vice-President in the trust department with American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago
• Authored four BNA tax portfolios, a BNA accounting portfolio, and is creator of the E&E Trust and Will Drafting System (www.trustandwilldraftingsystem.com), a web-based system to help Ohio and Virginia attorneys in the drafting of trusts, wills, and financial powers of attorney
• Frequent lecturer for Ohio Continuing Legal Education and other professional groups; adjunct professor of Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates and of Drafting Estate Planning Documents at Capital Law and Graduate Center, Columbus, Ohio
• Member of the Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law Specialty Board for Ohio; representative to the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section Board of Governors for the Ohio State Bar Association; Past Chairman of the Columbus Estate Planning Council; fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel since 1993
• Named an "Ohio Top 100 Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics and the publishers of Cincinnati Magazine; selected a Top 100 Attorney in the country by Robb Report Worth Magazine, December 2005; included in The Best Lawyers in America; life member of National Registry of Who's Who published in the 2001 Edition
• Juris Doctorate (1977), Chicago-Kent College of Law; Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (1974), University of Illinois
• Enjoys bicycling

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