Achieved the AV rating
Is recognized by The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers for high professional legal standards and ethics. The Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating attests to a lawyer’s legal ability and professional ethics, and reflects the confidential opinions of the Bar and the Judiciary.
Areas of Practice:
- Business Law
- Contested Trust and Estates
- Elder Law
- Estate Administration
- Estate Litigation
- Estate Planning
- Estate Planning for the Elderly
- Living Trusts
- Probate Administration
- Special Needs Trusts
- Tax
- Trust Administration
- Trust Litigation
- Trusts and Estates
Bar Admissions:
- Indiana, 1969
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 1969
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 1996
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1972
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1970
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
- U.S. Tax Court, 1971
Education:
- Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1969 J.D.
Doctor of Jurisprudence - Indiana University, 1963 A.B.
Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Indianapolis Bar Association
Former Committees/Sections:
Legal Ethics Committee member
Small Firm Practice Section, Member, Chair - Hamilton County Bar Association
Former member of Court Liaison Committee - Indianapolis Estate Planning Council
- Christian Legal Society
- Sertoma International – life member
- Sertoma Club of Broad Ripple
- Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity
Past Employment Positions:
- Indiana National Bank, Trust Officer
- Merchants National Bank, Trust Officer
- Marion County, Deputy Prosecutor
- Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana
- Carmel, Indiana, City Attorney