Giordani Swanger Ripp & Phillips LLP
100 Congress Avenue, Suite 1440
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: 512-767-7100
Website: http://www.gsrp.com
Firm Profile
Giordani, Swanger, Ripp & Phillips is an Austin, Texas based firm that serves the needs of high net worth individuals in the U.S. and abroad in the areas of estate and tax planning (international and domestic), real estate, charitable planning, insurance (with a special focus on private placement life insurance), business planning, and other non-litigation matters.
The professionals and staff of GSRP seek to provide the highest quality legal services within the strictest ethical boundaries of the legal profession in a work environment that honors, respects, and values our clients, each other, our colleagues, and the community.
Founded by a cohesive group of 15 lawyers and other private client professionals who have practiced together for as many as 20+ years, GSRP is uniquely positioned to render a broad range of legal and non-legal advisory services to the high net worth community. Supported by a superb team of administrative professionals whose primary focus it is to enable the billing professionals to provide service efficiently and quickly, GSRP offers clients an appealing value proposition—a comprehensive array of private client services at the highest level of quality, but reasonably priced and timely delivered.
It humbles us to have earned a national and international reputation as premier providers of estate planning, tax, and wealth management services to high net worth individuals and financial service providers, and to have been recognized for our efforts.
• The firm is AV-rated in all practice areas (Martindale-Hubbell)
• All rated lawyers have received an AV rating (Martindale-Hubbell)
• Two partners are named as Fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
• All Trusts and Estates Partners are named in The Best Lawyers in America (published by Best Lawyers):
- Leslie Giordani: 2002 through 2010
- Derry Swanger: 1996 through 2010
- Michael Ripp: 2007 through 2010
• All Trusts and Estates Partners are designated as "Texas Super Lawyers" (published by Law & Politics Magazine):
- Leslie Giordani: 2003 through 2010
- Derry Swanger: 2003 through 2010
• All Partners are Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the following areas:
- Leslie Giordani: Estate Planning & Probate
- Derry Swanger: Estate Planning & Probate
- Michael Ripp: Estate Planning & Probate
- Steve Phillips: Tax
• All eligible young attorneys are listed as "Texas Rising Stars" (published by Law & Politics Magazine):
- Michael Ripp: 2004 through 2010
- Mari Reed: 2008 through 2010
- Cindy Grossman: 2009 through 2010
- Top-Listed in Austin, Texas in Trusts and Estates with 3 lawyers. *
* One or more other firms have tied for this top listing.
Listed Lawyers
United States
The Texas Board of Legal Specialization has a board certification process that determines whether a lawyer may hold himself or herself out as a specialist in a field of law. The lawyers listed in Best Lawyers are voted into practice areas entirely as a result of the votes they receive from their peers and have no say in deciding which practice areas they are included in. Clients are urged to check a lawyer's firm web page to determine whether he or she is board certified in a specialty or subspecialty.