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Stearns has built a law practice that focuses on all aspects of estate planning ranging end-to-end from living trusts to complex wills to decedent estate administration. She is the current President of the Murfreesboro Estate Planning Council and is a member of the Middle Tennessee Estate Planning Council, Tennessee Bar Association, and the Rutherford/Cannon County Bar Association. Stearns attended the 2016 and 2018 University of Miami School of Law Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning. In 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Stearns was named as a “Rising Star” in the area of Estate Planning for the Nashville Area by Super Lawyers. Stearns started her professional career while still in college as a legislative intern to Tennessee State Representative John Hood. Later, while attending law school, Stearns worked as a law clerk with the late Tennessee State Representative W. Kent Coleman in his estate planning law practice in Murfreesboro. Eventually, this working relationship blossomed into the law firm of Coleman & Stearns, which continued successfully after Mr. Coleman’s untimely death in 2016. In March of 2018, Trail, Coleman & Stearns, PLLC, Attorneys at Law was formed when Stearns and Sandra Y. Trail merged their practices. The new firm, located in Murfreesboro.   Outside of her profession, Stearns devotes her time to her family, and the Murfreesboro community through philanthropic service.

Amy Farrar is an experienced estate planning and probate attorney, concentrating her practice on all kinds of legal and practical issues related to aging well. Farrar has practiced transactional business and real estate law for over fifteen years, representing small to medium sized businesses and individuals who are looking for strategic and practical legal guidance. She is recognized statewide as a leading Appellate lawyer, handling civil, criminal and domestic appeals. Farrar began her legal career as a Law Clerk for Justice Cornelia A. Clark, during Justice Clark’s first year on the Tennessee Supreme Court. During this time, Farrar gained a deep understanding of Tennessee’s appellate courts and has spent the years since refining her research, writing and oral advocacy her clerkship with the Tennessee Supreme Court, Farrar spent six years at a respected Nashville law firm. There, Farrar gained a wide variety of experience in business and commercial litigation, estate planning, real estate and employment law. She is actively involved in her community, serving in leadership roles on several Boards, and as an Elder at First Presbyterian Church, Murfreesboro. Farrar presents continuing legal education seminars for attorneys across the State on Estate Planning, Elder Law, and Appeals.