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Abby Wool Landon
Shareholder
Bullivant Houser Bailey PC.

Abby Wool Landon is an estate planning, wills and trusts, business succession and probate attorney with extensive experience advising family businesses in various capacities. Owner of her own law firm for ten years, business owner and member of several family partnerships, she brings hands-on business experience to her clients. Abby helps her clients with wills and trusts, complex business transactions, business succession and estate plans. If required, she assists them in navigating the probate process, and probate, wills and trust disputes, where it becomes necessary.

Abby is experienced in multiple-generation trust and estate planning, including business succession elements and qualified retirement plan analysis. She routinely handles matters pertaining to marital trust planning for clients with step-family issues, including marital conduit trust applications for qualified retirement plans. She is experienced in domicile tax analysis, grantor trusts, and trust administration for high net worth families and charitable trust planning and administration.

Abby studied law with an emphasis on business at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, where she was editor-in-chief of the law school publication In Brief. Abby spent two years as corporate counsel for a start up company, where she managed in-house shareholder relations, M&A transactions, debt and equity funding negotiations, contract negotiations, business succession planning and general corporate work.

Within the community, Abby continues to serve as a Board Member for a green, sustainable business, Better World Club. Abby also serves on the Portland Metro Leadership Council for the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF), and has presented at CLE seminars through the state on their behalf, speaking on asset protection and estate planning for families in conflict. Abby is a dynamic speaker and involved in community education and teaching to private groups to raise awareness of the importance of wills and trusts, and gift and estate tax planning to maximize family wealth and avoid conflict.

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Charles Bender
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP

Chuck’s practice focuses on tax and estate planning for high net-worth individuals and trust and estate administration. As an undergraduate, Chuck spent a year studying at the London School of Economics. Chuck is a frequent lecturer and writer on tax and estate topics. He has been a pioneer in incorporating the computer into the practice of law, drafting document assembly systems for preparing complex estate planning documents, and developing spreadsheet and Power Point presentations to make even the most complicated estate planning concepts simple for others to understand. Chuck chairs the Planned Giving Committee of the Bucks County Community College Foundation, and is a member of the Planned Giving Advisory Committee of BARC, an active local Bucks County Charity. Named one of the Top 100 Attorneys by Worth magazine (2008-2009) and selected as a "Super Lawyer" by Philadelphia Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine (2006, 2007).

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Linda L. Snelling
Partner
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Linda Snelling devotes her practice to estate and wealth planning, probate matters, guardianship and a wide variety of taxation issues for high net worth individuals and business entities.

Her experience as a public accountant at two of the country’s largest accounting firms is a substantial asset she brings to her practice. She has advised clients in multimillion-dollar litigation as well as supervised and managed audits, often for Fortune 500 clients.

Ms. Snelling joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in January 2008. Previously she was for five years a director at Sachs & Sax (formerly Sachs Sax Klein), where she was also the chair of the Estate, Probate & Wealth Planning Practice Group. She began her legal career in 1996 at Elk, Bankier, Palmer & Christu, where she remained until she entered private practice in 2001, and then joined Sachs & Sax in 2002.

Prior to her legal career, Ms. Snelling worked in the financial industry. She has been a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Florida since 1985 and was on the audit staff of both Deloitte and Touche in Orlando, and American Security Bank in Washington, D.C. From 1986 to 1991, she was an audit manager for Price Waterhouse in their Ft. Lauderdale office before building her own private practice in accounting in Boca Raton.

Her professional memberships include the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, American & Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Women’s Society of Certified Public Accountants, Boca Raton Estate Planning Council and Women for Excellence, Inc. Ms. Snelling is also a member of the Stonegate Bank advisory board.

Ms. Snelling was a 1999 Women of Distinction nominee by Soroptimist International of Boca Raton. She holds the BV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

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