Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Business Law
• Tax Planning
• Contracts
• Business Organizations
• Trusts
• Wills
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Real Estate Law
• Asset Protection
• Business Formation
• Business Planning
• Business Successions
• Business Taxation
• Buying and Selling of Businesses
• Closely Held Business
• Contested Trusts and Estates
• Estate Administration
• Estate Litigation
• Family Wealth Transfer
• Federal Estate and Gift Taxation
• Federal Income Tax
• Generation Skipping Tax
• Like Kind Exchange
• Limited Liability Company Law
• Living Trusts
• Living Wills
• Probate Administration
• Professional Corporations
• Tax Planning
• Trust Administration Litigation
• Trust Litigation
• Trusts and Estates Taxation
• Trusts and Estates

Published Works

• "Bob Jones University: Why the Controversy?", The Decalogue Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter, 1984
• "New Developments Regarding Advertising Income of Tax-Exempt Organizations", American Business Law Journal, Vol. 24/1, Spring, 1986
• "Neither Simple Nor Fair", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3F, Column 2, September 28, 1986

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, Webster University Graduate School of Business, 1987 - 1990
• Associate Professor, Fontbonne University Graduate School of Business, 1990

West Practice Categories

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills, Family Law, Litigation & Appeals, Probate & Estate Administration, Estate Administration, Real Estate Law, Taxation Law, Corporate Taxation, Estate & Gift Taxation, Income Taxation