Representative Experience
Wills and probate

Trusts and estates

Gift and generation-skipping taxation

Income taxation of trusts and estates

Prior Experience
Three years' experience with the New York City firm of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed

Past President, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (formerly The American College of Probate Counsel) and chair of its Estate and Gift Tax Committee

President, Seattle Estate Planning Council in 1980-1981

Publications and Presentations
Frequent speaker at various national continuing legal education programs on estate planning and probate matters

Memberships and Activities
Washington State and New York Bars

American College of Tax Counsel

International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, American Law Institute

Fellow of the American Bar Foundation

Joint Editorial Board for the Uniform Probate Code, Chair (original member, 1970)

Advisor for Restatement of the Law (Third Property­-Donative Transfers), American Law Institute

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Trusts and Estates Law by Woodward/White, 1983; 1987; 1989-90; 1991-92; 1993-94; 1995-96; 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2001-02; 2003-04; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 1999-2008

Listed in Chambers USA's "America's Leading Business Lawyers," 2006

Received the 2004 Treat Award from the National College of Probate Judges

Education
LL.B., Harvard University School of Law, 1962

B.A., with honors, Princeton University, 1959