Lauren focuses her practice on complex estate planning, trust and estate administration, and related corporate and real estate matters. Lauren represents high-net-worth individuals, personal representatives, trustees, closely-held businesses, charitable organizations, executives, and entrepreneurs.

Lauren’s practice includes complex domestic and international estate planning, wealth preservation and business succession planning, trust, estate, and probate administration, federal income, estate, and gift taxation, modification and termination of irrevocable trusts, and premarital and postmarital agreements.

Lauren assists with establishing private foundations, public charities, and other tax-exempt organizations, applying for tax exemption with the IRS, and ongoing operational and tax advice. Lauren also represents personal representatives, trustees, and beneficiaries in complex and contested trust and estate administration and litigation, will and trust contests, and estate tax controversy matters.

Lauren has experience with family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), life insurance trusts (ILITs), grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs), sales to grantor trusts, multi-generation dynasty trusts, trusts for minors, homestead issues, post-mortem estate planning, and federal estate, gift, and fiduciary income tax returns.

Lauren was previously a partner of an Am Law 200 law firm where she represented sophisticated high profile and high-net-worth clients. Lauren is a frequent author of articles on trusts and estates issues and has been cited in the Trust & Estates Florida Bar treatises, Practice Under the Florida Probate Code and Litigation Under the Florida Probate Code. She is also a graduate of the American College of Trusts and Estates Council (ACTEC) Florida Fellows Institute.

Before private practice, Lauren began her legal career with a federal clerkship with the Honorable Elizabeth A. Jenkins in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Lauren earned her finance and law degrees from the University of Florida, where she served as a member of Florida Blue Key and an editor of the Florida Law Review.

Lauren serves on the Board of After-School All-Stars, which partners with schools to provide free after-school and summer programs for underserved children in Tampa Bay.

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