A Personal Family Lawyer® is a trusted advisor who helps you to make the very best personal, financial, legal and business decisions for your family throughout your lifetime and is there to guide your loved ones when you can’t be.

Back in the day, before lawyers became all about the billable hour, form documents, and transaction, the trusted family lawyer was who mom and pop turned to for guidance throughout life’s ups and downs.

As firms grew and became more focused on billable hours and profit centers, the personal relationship began to fall by the way-side.

And, in the early 90s, planning with living trusts became so popular that every lawyer and his brother decided to start dabbling in Wills and Trusts and the practice soon became about fill in the blank form documents.
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Since I started practicing law about 15 years ago, I knew that this was my calling.  I wanted to help families with the most important decisions they could make regarding protecting their family in the event of the unthinkable, and I took great satisfaction from assisting them with this process.

But it was so difficult!  I had no course but to take the normal route that estate planning attorneys make, and I found – MUCH to my dismay – that, sometimes, the plans failed when families needed them to work.  I was a good attorney.  I cared about my clients. I was doing what most other attorneys were doing.  I kept up on changes in the law. Read More→