A. Stephen McDaniel is the firm’s senior attorney having joined the firm in 1975. Mr. McDaniel’s practice is limited to estate, charitable and business continuation planning, and probate and trust administration. He is the managing attorney for the firm’s estate planning/probate section.

Mr. McDaniel is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Council and a member of the Memphis Estate Planning Council. He is a Certified Estate Planning Specialist by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization and is an Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) and holds an Estate Planning Law Specialist (EPLS) designation awarded by the Estate Law Specialist Board, the only approved American Bar Association program which certifies specialists in the field of estate planning.

Mr. McDaniel was named by Worth Magazine in December of 2008 as one of the top 100 estate planning attorneys in the country. He is included in the 2009 edition of the Best Lawyers in America and was named in 2009 by Business Tennessee Magazine as one of the top 150 attorneys in the State of Tennessee.

Mr. McDaniel is the Past President of the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils, an organization representing nearly 200 estate planning councils across the country with over 20,000 members. He is the Past President of the Memphis Estate Planning Council. Mr. McDaniel serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis School of Law where he has taught Estate Planning, Estate & Gift Taxation and Insurance Law. He is a former attorney for the Internal Revenue Service.

Mr. McDaniel has lectured on estate planning and business continuation  topics across the country and most recently presented programs in Alabama, Arizona,  Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee. He is a co-author of A Grandparent’s Guide to Gifted Children published in 2004, a contributor to Leimberg Information Systems (LISI) newsletters and has been quoted in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and USA Today.

Mr. McDaniel is a graduate of the University of Memphis (BBA 1968) and the University of Memphis School of Law (JD 1973). He is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Missouri.

Mr. McDaniel is a member of the Memphis Bar Association and the Tennessee Bar Association. He is a Fellow in the Memphis and Shelby County Bar Foundation. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis.

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