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Kellsie is the partner and owner of Singleton Law Offices, LLC. At Singleton Law Offices, LLC, we pride ourselves on working closely with you to protect those things that are most important to you. As a small firm, we only take cases that fit with the firm’s model and beliefs. You will be treated like a person, rather than a billable hour.. The firm focuses primarily on the following areas of law:. Estate Administration–Probate, Letters Testamentary Summary Distributions.. Estate Planning–Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Advance Healthcare Directives.. Medicaid Planning–Eligibility, Estate Recovery, Lien Resolution, and Administrative Hearings.. Family Law–Divorce, Custody, Child Support, Mediation, Guardian ad Litem work.. Personal Injury–Car Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Slip and Falls.. Let us know how we can help you manage life’s emergencies and plan for your future.Call Singleton Law Offices, LLC, today at.

Kevin focuses his practice on corporate law and trusts and estates.. He assists individuals, families and business owners with estate planning and provides special attention to each client’s unique goals and family dynamics.  He works collaboratively with his clients to structure estate and business plans to achieve their objectives with maximum tax efficiency.  Kevin also has extensive experience in estate and trust administration.. Kevin represents closely-held businesses on a  broad array of issues, including organizing corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies; assisting with the purchase or lease of real property, and negotiating employment and commercial contracts. He has advised clients on numerous capital transactions including asset purchases, corporate mergers and acquisitions, conversions, and reorganizations.  He has implemented financing, and facilitated the partnering of businesses and investors through the creative use of joint venture agreements, limited partnerships and other vehicles.. In addition to assisting clients with planning and transactional matters, Kevin has experience in the litigation of business and estate disputes.. Kevin holds a masters degree in taxation from Temple University School of Law, where he received the Graduate Tax Award for posting the highest grade point average.  Prior to joining Timoney Knox, Kevin practiced estate and business law with a Huntingdon Valley firm and was an associate in the corporate department of a large New Jersey law firm.. Kevin lives in Bucks County with his wife, Rose, and their two children, Patrick and Shannon.

Jeremy A. Wechsler, Esq. has been practicing estate planning, probate and elder law since 2009. Jeremy received his law degree at New York Law School (2009), and an Estate Planning Certificate at Temple University Beasley School of Law (2025).. Jeremy was born and raised in Bucks County, PA and is a resident of Montgomery County, PA.. Jeremy previously practiced estate planning and probate at a large Bucks County Law Firm, prior to founding Wechsler Estate Solutions.. Jeremy takes a common-sense approach to estate planning. The key is finding the optimal solution--no more, no less. Jeremy is well-known for his great bedside manner and friendly rapport with clients.. Jeremy is active in the community, handling pro bono legal matters, and currently serves as an advisory council member to the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging. Prior to Jeremy becoming an attorney, he served as a teacher in the Teach For America organization. Jeremy taught reading and language art to 6th and 7th graders at Sulzberger Middle School in West Philadelphia.. To contact Jeremy at anytime, please email

David M. D’Orlando is an Attorney in private practice with a broad range of civil litigation and transactional experience servicing Philadelphia and its surrounding counties, as well as Central and South Jersey, primarily in the areas of estate planning and administration, real estate, and corporate law.. Areas of Practice:Mr. D'Orlando represents individual and corporate clients in a broad range of civil litigation and transactional matters in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery and the surrounding counties, as well as Central and South Jersey.  The core of Mr. D'Orlando's practice concerns trusts and estate matters, including estate planning, estate administration and Orphans’ Court/Surrogate Court proceedings, as well as real property transactions and disputes, commercial transactions, business/entity formation and general litigation.. Education:. Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law, L.L.M. in Taxation, Certificate in Estate Planning, 2018Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 2011University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isenberg School of Management, B.S., 2005. Bar Admissions:PennsylvaniaNew JerseyU.S. District Court for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaU.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to starting in private practice, Mr. D'Orlando served as Judicial Fellow with the Court of Common Pleas for the 1st Judicial District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia County clerking for judges in both the Civil Division and Family Division, as well as a pro bono volunteer attorney with the Philly VIP as a Legal Fellow through the Louis D. Brandeis Legal Society.Mr. D'Orlando previously worked as a Major Motion Picture Talent Agent Assistant at a top-tier talent agency in Hollywood, California where he managed desk of an A-list motion picture talent agent and assisted in the management of the contracts and the professional careers of a stable of actor-clients.Mr. D'Orlando also gained professional experience in the media and marketing industries while working with a large advertising firm in Chicago, in addition to experience in the professional and collegiate sports industries, where he worked with the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2005-06 season and the NCAA Compliance Department of Penn State University in 2010-11.Honors, Memberships, and Affiliations:Mr. D'Orlando is a member of the Bucks County Bar Association and Mercer County Bar Association, and has held memberships with the Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and the Brandeis Law Society, serving on the Legal Fellows Committee. He previously served as a Volunteer Attorney with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and was selected to serve as a Board Observer with Scenic Philadelphia through the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Non-Profit Board Observer Program.Mr. D'Orlando is also a certified arbitrator with the Compulsory Arbitration Center for the Civil Division of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia County.Mr. D'Orlando previously served as a Senior Editor of the Penn State Law Review, a Member of the Moot Court Board, and was selected to represent Penn State Law in Vienna, Austria as a member of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition Team.Publications:5+6 = Discrimination? Why FIFA’s Proposed Quota Rule Doesn’t Add Up, 115 PENN ST. L. REV. 749 (2011).

E. Jane Smart Hansch is an attorney licensed to practice in Virginia and North Carolina.   Mrs. Hansch is pleased to be serving the people of Virginia with the education and experiences she has been blessed to receive around the world.. In all that she does, Mrs. Hansch is intuitively able to connect well with clients, and meets them in difficult legal situations with compassion and understanding. She understands the true meaning of personalized service, and works to communicate and create plans of action that are appropriate and tailored to each client’s needs.. E. Jane Smart Hansch received her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her first year at Carolina Law, Mrs. Hansch received the Gressman-Pollitt Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy. While at Carolina, she also worked on the staff of the Graduate Student Attorney General, and was a member of Carolina Women in Law and the Christian Legal Society.. Jane Smart Hansch graduated suma cum laude with Honors from Salem College with her B.A. degrees in International Relations and Spanish. She received the President’s Prize for International Relations along with Departmental Honors in Spanish. Mrs. Hansch was also the first student in the history of Salem College to receive the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for showing remarkable character and integrity, and by demonstrating a commitment to serving others.. Shaped by a passion for experiential learning, Mrs. Hansch was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to La Plata, Argentina in 2006 and later spent a year working as a Christian campus minister in Beirut, Lebanon. Mrs. Hansch currently lives in Hampton, Virginia with her wonderful husband, Davy.  They are active members of Crossroads Community Church in Yorktown and participate in a weekly couples’ Bible study at First Baptist Church in Newport News.

I graduated from Stanford University and the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Prior to opening Hickman Menashe, P.S., I practiced as an associate at the law firm of Isenhour Bleck, PLLC. I also worked for Senator Ron Wyden, and Evergreen and Columbia Legal Services. I enjoy meeting people, learning their stories and helping them put basic planning in place that will make a difference for themselves and their loved ones.. I am a past Chair of the Elder Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association and previously served as a member of their Executive Committee. I regularly speak before State and local bar groups, estate planning councils, and community groups on topics ranging from Estate Planning to Special Needs Trusts to Medicaid Planning.. I am actively involved in my community and keep busy playing and enjoying life with my wife and children.

Nathan Benjamin is a Partner at Benjamin Law Group, PLLC. Mr. Benjamin handles injury cases and estate planning. The firm is based in Seattle, Washington, but handles cases all around Western Washington. He graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law, where he served elders in the Gonzaga Legal Aid Clinic, assisting with a wide array of issues including estate planning. Please call for help with your legal case.

Jamie founded Phinney Estate Law in 2007as a way of addressing a need she saw in the community for affordable,values-based estate planning and as a way to develop a legal practicethat was consistent with her own values and legal philosophy.  Beforefounding Phinney Estate Law Jamie worked as a litigation associate atCozen O’Connor, as an attorney advisor for the U.S. Department ofJustice, and as legal intern for Northwest Immigration Rights Projectand Northwest Justice Project.. Jamiebegan her work in estate law in 2005 as a pro bono attorney with KingCounty Volunteer Attorneys for Persons with HIV/AIDS (VAPWA).  Shefound that she enjoyed the opportunity to help clients with theplanning process and and the chance to think creatively with theseclients to address the unique needs of their situations.  She alsoappreciated the opportunity to work with clients to avoid conflicts.. In addition to her work with VAPWA, Jamie also does pro bono work and/orworked for non-profits providing clients with assistance withimmigration petitions, naturalization, applications for publicbenefits, and family law cases.  She continues to devote 25% of herpractice to pro bono work and free community education.  As part ofthat service, Jamie serves as a volunteer attorney facilitator for theex-party probate and guardianship calendar in King County.. Sincefounding Phinney Estate Law, Jamie has had the opportunity to work withindividual or families in a variety of situations.  She has worked withnewlyweds, young families, single business owners, blending families,the terminally ill, and non-married clients.  It is her experience thateach family, no matter how traditional or non-traditional, is trulyunique and, once you get to know them, have unique needs.. Whenshe is not working, Jamie volunteers her time to a number of localcommunity groups including the Seattle Milk Fund, Phinney EcoVillage,Phinney-Greenwoood Climate Change Action Now, and the Greenwood ArtsCouncil and is the elected Democratic PCO for her neighborhood.  She is a practicing Quaker with the Salmon BayFriends Circle.  She also enjoys spending time with her family andfriends and loves spending a much time as possible enjoying theoutdoors.  She is in three book clubs and is always looking for a goodbook.  She also carves and prints block prints which can occasionally be seen in shops and coffee house in the Phinney-Greenwood neighborhood.. Jamieis a member of the Washington State Bar Association sections on Probateand Elder Law.  She is also a member of the King County Bar Associationsections on Probate and Elder Law. She currently serves as the Co-Chair of the KingCounty Bar Association Collaborative LawSection and the leader of the Long Term Planning Working Group of the Northwest GBLT Senior Services Network.  She is also a member of the International Holistic Lawyer’sAssociation.

James W. Hortsman is the founding partner of James W. Hortsman Law Group, LLC, focusing primarily on general corporate matters including transactional, corporate governance and asset planning, estate planning, and family law matters. Mr. Hortsman has represented and served as outside general counsel and trusted business advisor to companies across multiple industries. Those clients include domestic and international construction firms, logistic suppliers, breweries, technology firms, farms, and manufacturers.. As the founder, James works closely with clients' legal and operational teams to devise and implement litigation avoidance strategies and provides counsel on operational, regulatory and compliance matters. He previously served as General Counsel to a privately-held Chicago-based engineering and construction company and understands the importance of having a deep and practical understanding of clients' business operations and strategic goals.. He utilizes a number of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve legal disputes and takes a practical and holistic approach to solve clients' problems. James chose the legal profession as a way to devote his time and skills to assist others to realize their business and personal dreams.

Jenni Frere Volk was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington.  She also had the pleasure of living in eastern Washington for four years while attending Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington’s most prestigious collegiate institution.. As a liberal arts college, Whitman provided Jenni with a solid foundation to become a successful, well-rounded attorney and business owner.. Jenni went on to graduate magna cum laude from Seattle University School of Law.. Although the subject of death can be delicate, Jenni became interested in teaching others about estate planning so that they could take comfort in knowing that their loved ones would be taken care of upon their passing.  Jenni’s friends and family have always considered her a “planner” – so estate planning seemed to be a natural fit.. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and is currently the co-chairman/co-founder of the Washington First Responder Will Clinic.. Jenni currently lives in Seattle with her husband, Ben, and her two young children.

My practice focuses on estate planning, taxation, probate, trust administration, and trust and estate litigation matters. I enjoys working with a broad range of clients, from young families looking to secure their children’s future, to clients in need of sophisticated tax planning and litigation strategy.. I graduated from Seattle University School of Law, magna cum laude, and earned my Masters of Law in Taxation from the University of Washington. While in law school, I studied global human rights advocacy at the Mandela Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was a legal clerk to the Honorable Richard McDermott at the King County Superior Court.. I have served as the Young Lawyer Liaison for the Washington State Bar Association's Real Property, Probate & Trust Section, and am currently serving as the Section's Newsletter Editor, writing articles on noteworthy trust and estate issues, and am an ex officio member of its Executive Committee. I am currently serving as the chair of the WSBA Taxation Section’s Estate and Gift Tax Committee, and am a frequent author and lecturer on trust and estate topics.

I am an experienced attorney providing estate planning and fiduciary services.

Oliver Spencer is a Seattle estate planning lawyer, Seattle real estate lawyer, and Seattle landlord-tenant lawyer. He has twenty-two years of experience as an attorney practicing in these areas of the law. He has also volunteered as a mediator for disputes in the King County District Court’s Small Claims Court in Seattle for landlord-tenant, commercial, construction, towing, breach of contract, personal injury, and merchant-consumer disputes, and is a graduate of the King County Dispute Resolution Center’s Mediation Practicum. He has mediated landlord-tenant disputes at the King County Dispute Resolution Center.. He was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Walnut Hills High School. He graduated Cum Laude from the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He majored in journalism and double minored in French language and Asian Studies. After undergraduate school he worked as a newspaper and magazine reporter before moving to Seattle to attend the University of Washington School of Law.. He worked as an attorney for K&L Gates, LLP, formerly Preston, Gates & Ellis, LLP, and Bank of America, Probate And Wealth Transmission Department in Seattle, Washington. He worked in estate planning for the Law Office of Stanley Byrd in Seattle, Washington. He worked as a real estate attorney for the Law Offices of James Deal in Lynnwood, Washington. He worked as a mortgage loan officer for Deal Mortgage in Lynnwood, Washington. He worked as an attorney for the Law Offices of David Reed, the Law Offices of Ricardo Vasquez, and the Law Office of Kathryn Ellis in Seattle, Washington. He worked for General Electric Aircraft Engines, Legal Operation, Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, and the Law Offices of Stephen Felson in Cincinnati, Ohio.. His free time is spent with his family and friends. He enjoys swimming, tennis, hiking, film, theater, music, news, books, writing, and the study of language. He has language abilities in English, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Latin.. He studied French language and culture at the Institute of Touraine in Tours, France. He was a Capitol Scholar from the State of Ohio at the Office of the Corporation Counsel, General Litigation Division, in Washington, D.C. He received the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of the Government of Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese at Taiwan Normal University (Shi Da) in Taipei, Taiwan.

I've written a book entitled, "Smart Estate Planning in Washington--What You Really Need to Know."  For more information, you can preview it at. Mr. Waltar was born in Boston, Massachusetts but grew up in eastern Washington.  He moved to Seattle in 1980 to attend college where he graduated from Seattle Pacific University, cum laude, earning dual degrees in English Literature and Religion in 1984.  He received his Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1988.  Mr. Waltar returned to Seattle and attended law school at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.  The school was acquired by Seattle University during the three years of his attendance.  That means he has two Juris Doctorate diplomas for the price of one—from the University of Puget Sound and Seattle University School of Law.. Mr. Waltar was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1994 and is also admitted to practice in United States District Court, Western District of Washington.  He is also a member of the American Bar Association.  Prior to establishing his own law firm, Mr. Waltar spent four years at an exclusive Estate Planning law firm in Seattle.  He founded Stephen M. Waltar, PS in 2000 and is the principal shareholder.. Mr. Waltar limits his law practice to areas associated with Estate Planning, including trusts, estate tax law, wills, probate, asset protection planning, business succession planning, charitable giving, and disability planning.  He is a popular and entertaining speaker at Estate Planning seminars and has taught both professionals and lay people Estate Planning and charitable giving.  Mr. Waltar has given hundreds of seminars and talks.  He has taught various college courses as an adjunct professor at Seattle University and the University of Washington.  Mr. Waltar has published numerous articles and has spoken to many private and public employees, as well as to community, civic and religious groups.  He has been a co-host and guest on various radio programs.  Mr. Waltar is a widely acclaimed speaker and seminar leader in the field of Estate Planning.  He is appreciated for his ability to reduce complex legal principles into understandable concepts.  He often says he has the “Mind of an Attorney and the Heart of a Pastor.”. He and his wife and two daughters live in Kirkland, Washington.  Mr. Waltar enjoys getting away to ski at their condo in Sun Valley, Idaho.  He enjoys playing most sports and coaching girls’ basketball.. His book can be purchased from his office, via his website, and the University of Washington Book Store in Seattle or Bellevue.