The people who protect a family's legacy.

A Band 1 nationwide private-wealth lawyer and past ACTEC Regent whose careful, creative planning helps families pass on what they have built.

For thirty years he has taught the leaders of trust departments across the country, giving generously of what he knows.

He speaks of estate planning as a civic virtue, and champions charitable giving as part of a life well planned.

A Chambers Star lawyer and NYU adjunct professor who has quietly shaped how the field thinks about tax and estate planning.

A Chambers Senior Statesperson who built a boutique devoted entirely to families, their trusts, and the charities they love.

An ACTEC Fellow and Estate Planning Hall of Fame member whose inventive trust structures have become part of the profession's toolkit.

A past president of the Chicago Estate Planning Council who mentors widely and treats succession as a family story, not just a tax problem.

Her years in Treasury's Office of Tax Policy give clients rare insight, and she shares it openly through ACTEC's Capital Letters.

An ACTEC Fellow with nearly four decades at one firm, board-certified and trusted by Texas families across generations.

His current-developments outlines are a gift the whole estate-planning bar reads, generously offered year after year.

Named Chicago Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year, he untangles the hardest cross-border planning so families around the world are cared for.

An Estate Planning Hall of Fame inductee and Northwestern professor whose treatise on modern families meets people where they actually are.

She co-founded a respected boutique and serves family offices, founders, and art collectors with warmth and precision.

His free quarterly Business Succession Solutions newsletter is essential reading for thousands of CPAs and attorneys he has never met.

Ranked by Chambers High Net Worth, she guides families across Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East with genuine global fluency.

He taught income taxation of trusts and estates for thirty years as an adjunct professor, and still shares his outlines freely.

Named Boston Estate Planner of the Year, he has spent decades teaching fiduciary tax and helping families hold and transfer wealth wisely.

Author of dozens of books and well over a thousand articles, he gives away knowledge tirelessly, including pro bono planning for the chronically ill.

A consistently Chambers-ranked tax and estate lawyer who has taught estate and gift tax to law students for decades.

With over five decades and 500-plus articles, he has taught more of the profession its craft than almost anyone living.

Families and fiduciaries call him for the hardest problems, where he serves as creative planner, mediator, and trusted expert witness.

Named one of the nation's Top 100 Attorneys, she resolves painful family and trust disputes with a steady hand toward mediation.

A CPA-turned-lawyer, he integrated asset protection with mainstream estate planning and co-authored the leading BNA portfolio on it, helping families protect what they build without hiding it.

Named the Gerald Hart Award as Florida's outstanding tax attorney, she guides closely held businesses through succession and has stood up for taxpayers all the way to federal court.

He teaches the LL.M. course on Chapter 14 at Miami and has made the thorniest corner of the transfer tax code legible to families and the advisers who serve them.

He rose from trainee to head of department at one of the world's leading private client firms, and advises families on philanthropy and governance with a mind colleagues describe as astonishing.

Dual-qualified across English and Swiss law, he successfully lobbied Switzerland to recognize trusts and has pressed hard on financial data privacy, defending clients' rights as well as their wealth.

She chaired the drafting committees behind the fiduciary access to digital assets and electronic wills acts, quietly modernizing estate law for a world where so much of a life is now digital.

After decades at Baker Botts and Goldman Sachs, he is known for teaching the best planning strategies he sees in plain, generous terms, so families and advisers can actually use them.

Co-author of the Price on Contemporary Estate Planning treatise and a beloved teacher, he makes tax and estate law genuinely clear for students and practitioners alike.

A longtime American Law Institute adviser and co-author of the Casner and Pennell estate planning treatise, he has taught much of the profession the fundamentals of transfer tax.

With nearly twenty-five years advising internationally connected families, she leads a leading private client firm while still advising clients herself, keeping the craft close to the leadership.

Recognized as a leading academic on cross-border EU succession, he has written extensively so that families with lives spanning several countries can pass on what they have without chaos.

He helps entrepreneurs plan around the QSBS exclusion and protect what they have built, pairing sophisticated structures with a long record recognized by Chambers and his peers.