Practice Areas
- Complex Wealth Transfer Planning
- Trusts & Estates
- Probate and Estate Administration
- Business Succession Planning
- Charitable Planning
- Planning for non-U.S. citizens and residents
- Tax
Professional Associations
- Fellow of American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
- Past President, 1987-1988
- Board of Regents, Regent Emeritus
- Member of Business Planning Committee
- Member of International Estate Planning Committee
- Fellow of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
- Past Member of the Executive Council
- Fellow American College of Tax Counsel
- Member of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association
- Past President
- Member of American Bar Foundation
- Member of American Law Institute
- Member of the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
- Member of New York Tax Institute
- Member of the Southern Federal Tax Institute
- Member of University of California Estate Planning Institute
- Member of State Bar of Georgia
- Past Chair of Fiduciary Law Section
Honors
- Elected by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils to its Estate Planning Hall of Fame as an Accredited Estate Planner (Distinguished), 2015
- Awarded the Verner F. Chaffin Career Service Award in recognition of a distinguished career of outstanding, unselfish and dedicated service to the Fiduciary Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, its members and the citizens of Georgia, 2005
- U.S. Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Tax Law, 2013
- U.S. News Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Trusts and Estates, 2011
- Selected to Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite
- Selected as a Law & Politics Magazine’s Georgia Super Lawyer
- Named in Best Lawyers in America Guide, Trusts&Estates
- AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*
Education
- Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor, 1963
- Princeton University
Civic and Charitable Activities
- Trustee of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
- Curator, The Georgia Historical Society, Atlanta, Georgia
- Emeritus Trustee of The Westminster Schools, Atlanta, Georgia
*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure’s standards and policies.
