PRACTICE

Specializes in estate, gift and generation-skipping tax transfer planning, probate practice, wealth preservation planning, community property issues and income taxation of estates and trusts.

ORGANIZATIONS

Board Certified, Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1978; American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel, 1984; The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, 1990; American Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Dallas County Bar Association; Texas Real Property, Probate and Trust Council Member (1984 to 1988); Chairman, Texas Trust Code Committee (1985 to 1988); Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation, 1987.

PUBLICATIONS

Author/Speaker for the State Bar of Texas Advanced Estate Planning Institute 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1995

Author/Speaker for SMU Symposium on Estate Planning 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985

Author/Speaker for Texas CPA Foundation 1978, 1982

Author/Speaker for Dallas Estate Planning Council 1977, 1985

Author/Speaker for SMU Symposium on Federal Taxation 1979

Author/Speaker for 7th Annual Committee Property Estate Planning Seminar 1981

Author/Speaker for Texas International Law Symposium 1981

Author/Speaker for 11th Annual Notre Dame Estate Planning Institute 1985

Author/Speaker for University of Texas 33rd Annual Taxation Conference 1985

Author/Speaker for Southwestern Legal Foundation Wills and Probate Institute 1991

Author of Estate Planning for the Owner of Oil and Gas Properties: An Overview of Judicial and Legislative Developments with Planning Considerations, 26 Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly No. 1, Page 10, No. 2, Page 148 (1977)

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

University of Texas School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1973, Order of the Coif)

Southern Methodist University (B.B.A., with honors, 1970)