Best Lawyers Near You in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for Trusts and Estates
Randy Nelson is a Shareholder focusing his practice on estate planning, advising family businesses, tax planning, trust administration and probate. He is a Certified Public Accountant and was an Adjunct Professor at Marquette University Law School where he taught estate planning for over 30 years. He is a frequent speaker at continuing education courses for lawyers and CPAs on the subjects of estate planning and tax planning. He is the author of the chapter “Estate Planning for Owners o...
Jennifer R. D'Amato is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Litigation - Trusts and Estates, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates. Jennifer R. practices law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Best Lawyers has recognized Jennifer R. D'Amato since 2007. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. Th...
Joseph E. Tierney, III has more than forty years of experience focused primarily on tax and corporate law for businesses, owner families and individuals. He has particular experience in the design and administration of plans for very large estates, including some whose accumulated assets have totaled in the eight- and nine-figures. He has also been lead counsel in the purchase and sale of numerous businesses and has extensive experience in entity selection and structuring. Because tax consequ...
Caitlyn B. Sikorski is a shareholder in Reinhart’s Trusts and Estates Practice where she focuses on trustee compliance and litigation, including breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty, undue influence, and significant construction and reformation matters. She represents individual and corporate fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and other parties involved in will, trust and intra-family related disputes and matters. Caitlyn is also experienced in prenuptial and marital property agreements, ...
Sumeeta Krishnaney is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. She concentrates her practice on estate planning, including special needs planning and guardianships, charitable estate planning and business succession planning. She focuses on the preparation of trusts, including first and third party special needs trusts, wills, marital agreements, financial powers of attorney, and healthcare powers of attorney. She represents clients in all matters relating t...
Terri Boxer is the Co-Chair of the Trusts and Estates Section. She practices in the areas of marital property, estate planning, and probate and trust administration. She advises clients on business succession planning and tax planning to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes. She provides services in the drafting of estate plans and other documents including wills, trusts, marital property agreements, premarital agreements and powers of attorney.
George Peek is a Shareholder in the Trusts & Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. George assists clients in a broad range of estate planning and administration services, including estate and trust administration, preparation of estate planning documents and representations in guardianships/conservatorships; and he is also a frequent presenter in these areas. In addition, he has litigated several complex estate planning issues including inheritance disputes. Beyond his estate p...
For over forty-five years, Dennis has advised business owners in all areas of contract and corporate law. He focuses primarily on assisting his clients with business succession planning, estate planning, contract and corporate law—with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder/partner disputes. One of the founding members of the firm in 1973, Dennis has assisted hundreds of business owners and their companies in structuring successful business succession plans. These comp...
Jamie Barwin is a Shareholder in the Trusts & Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. She focuses her practice on estate planning, probate and estate administration, business and corporate planning, special needs planning and tax. Jamie is also a licensed CPA in both Wisconsin and Michigan with six years of experience at Big 4 Accounting. Jamie delivers comprehensive estate planning services to families and businesses. Jamie helps her clients customize and understand their person...
T. Samuel Azinger is a Shareholder in the Trusts and Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. Sam focuses his practice on estate planning, estate and trust administration, retirement benefits planning, charitable giving, and special needs planning. He counsels high-net-worth families, closely-held business owners and professionals at every stage of wealth, designing and drafting wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, asset-holding structures, marital property agreements and powers o...
John “Jack” McNally is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Trust, Estates and Succession Planning Practice Groups. He focuses his practice on estate planning and probate and trust litigation, as well as a broad range of civil litigation matters. Jack represents individuals, families, and businesses in disputes involving estates, fiduciary duties, and other complex civil issues. Jack’s background in public service provides him with practical litigation experience and ...
Alexis (Lexie) Witte is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. She advises individuals and families on trust planning, asset protection, tax planning, business formation and special needs trusts. During law school, Lexie served as Editor-in-Chief of the Marquette Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Review and was an Executive Board Member of the Student Bar Association. She provided services at the Volunteer Legal Clinic’s Estate Planning Clin...
Avery Mayne is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. She works with clients on funding for long-term care, special needs trust planning, and adult guardianships and protective action litigation. A focal point of her practice is elder law and special needs law. She is certified as an Elder Law Attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation. She helps families and individuals with asset protection planning and appeals, determining eligibility for long...
Claire McDonough is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section at von Briesen & Roper, s.c. She enjoys working with individuals, families and business owners to help them plan for the future. Claire focuses on all matters relating to estate planning, succession planning and trust and estate administration. Specifically, her practice includes drafting trusts, wills, marital property agreements and powers of attorney. Claire also advises clients on prenuptial agreements. During law school s...
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