Our Trusts and Estates Practice is varied and sophisticated. The firm represents a great number of business owners, corporate executives, physicians, retirees and other individuals who need estate planning advice. This practice area is heavily tax-oriented in nature, with emphasis placed on assisting individuals and families in planning their affairs to minimize the burden of gift and estate taxes. The firm has four attorneys who devote substantially all of their time to this area, and the services performed by these lawyers include advising individuals in estate and gift tax planning, life insurance, IRA and retirement plan options, and charitable gift planning, drafting a wide variety of trust documents and wills, durable powers of attorney, living will declarations, prenuptial agreements, and family limited partnerships, preparing gift and estate tax returns, handling the probate administration of estates, representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service and Tax Court with respect to gift and estate tax matters, and representing individuals in contested trust and estate matters in state court. The attorneys who practice in this area are frequent speakers at seminars on estate-related topics.