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RICHARD J. ABBONDANZA is a partner in the Portland law firm of Hopkinson & Abbondanza, P.A. He received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, cum laude, and his law degree from Catholic University of America. Mr. Abbondanza regularly speaks on the subjects of estate planning, retirement planning, and real estate and business succession planning. He is admitted to practice in all Maine courts. He is a member of the Maine Estate Planning Council; WealthCounsel, a national association of estate planning attorneys and advisors; and a recent graduate of the two-year Laureate Program of the Southern California Institute. Mr. Abbondanza serves on the boards of North Yarmouth Academy, the Institution for Civic Leadership, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine. GAIL P. KINGSLEY is the managing partner of Libby O'Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLC, in Kennebunk, Maine. Ms. Kingsley is an experienced and highly respected estate planning attorney with an established practice both in Massachusetts, and Maine. She divides her time between offices in Waltham, Massachusetts, and Kennebunk. Ms. Kingsley graduated from the University of Connecticut, earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Boston College Law School and her LL.M. degree in taxation from Boston University School of Law. She began her legal career in the Boston firm of Burns & Levinson. Ms. Kingsley is the chairman of Avesta Housing of Portland, Maine. SMILIE GREGG ROGERS is an attorney with York Law, LLC, located in York, Maine, where his practice is focused on estate planning, probate and business planning. During law school, Mr. Rogers interned with the Honorable Frank R. Alley III, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge, District of Oregon, and with Ronald R. Sticka, a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee, in Eugene, Oregon. After law school, Mr. Rogers served as attorney-advisor to the Honorable Carolyn P. Chiechi at the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C. After leaving the Tax Court in 2003, he practiced with a boutique estate planning firm, in Fairfax, Virginia, before moving to Maine in 2006, where his practice continued with the same focus. Mr. Rogers is admitted to practice law in Maine, is an inactive member of the Virginia Bar Association and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court. Mr. Rogers earned his B.A. degree from the University of Oregon, his J.D. degree from the University of Oregon School of Law (Order of the Coif) and his LL.M. degree in taxation from the University of Washington School of Law.
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