Current Employment Position(s)

Managing Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1964

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Taxation Law

West Practice Categories

Taxation Law, Estate Planning, Probate & Estate Administration, Mergers & Acquisitions

Bar Admissions

• Arkansas, 1964
• Tennessee, 1961
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1965
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1965
• U.S. Tax Court, 1965

Certification/Specialties

• Certified Public Accountant, Arkansas, 1965

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Pulaski County Bar (Member)
• Arkansas Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member, Tax Section and Estate and Gift Tax Subcommittee)
• Rotary (LR Club 99) (President 1993 - 1994)
• Arkansas Society of CPAs (President 1987)
• Quapaw Area Council Boy Scouts of America (President 2004 - 2006)

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, American College of Trust & Estate Counsel
• Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Taxation and Trusts and Estates Categories
• Listed in Chambers USA as leading lawyer in Corporate / Commercial: Tax
• Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 lawyers in Arkansas
• Named in Arkansas Times as Top Tax Lawyer in Arkansas

Classes and Seminars

• Estate & Gift Taxation and Estate Planning; University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School, 1968 - Present
• Basic Estate & Gift Taxation, American Law Institute - American Bar Association, 1992

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1964
  LL.M. (in Taxation), Master of Laws in Taxation
• University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1960
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1958
  B.S., Bachelor of Science
  Honors: Beta Alpha Psi
  Major: Accounting
• Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Alpha Delta
• Pi Kappa Alpha

Published Works

• Workbook for Arkansas Estate Planners Bobbs-Merrill, 1965

Address

400 West Capitol Avenue
Suite 2000
Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

Phones

(501) 370-1546

Faxes

(501) 376-2147

Emails

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Websites

http://www.fridayfirm.com