Practice Emphasis:
Don’s practice focuses on estate and closely held business planning, qualified retirement plans and a wide variety of tax issues. He represents clients in matters involving wills, trusts and fiduciary administration; retirement and executive planning; family wealth transfers; business organizations and tax planning; succession planning; charitable gifting programs and family charitable foundations; probate and postmortem tax and family planning; guardianships and conservatorships; estate and trust litigation, including will contests, fiduciary accountings and related contested issues.
Admitted to Practice:
Nebraska
Other Experience/Achievements:
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
- Listed: Best Lawyers in America® (Tax Law, Trusts and Estates), 2001-present
- Named: Best Lawyers in America® 2024 Tax Law Lawyer of the Year for Lincoln
- Named: Best Lawyers in America® 2016 Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year for Lincoln
- Named: Best Lawyers in America® 2013 Tax Law Lawyer of the Year for Lincoln
- Listed: Great Plains Super Lawyers (Tax)
- Member, Board of Directors, Great Plains Federal Tax Institute
- Fellow, Nebraska State Bar Foundation
- Member, Board of Directors, Lincoln Junior Achievement
- Member, Texas Law Review, 1986-1987
- Member, Chancellors, University of Texas
- Order of the Coif
- Certified Public Accountant Certificate, 1984
