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LEE CRAIG is a sole practitioner in Richardson, Texas, where she concentrates in trusts and estates, elder law, Medicaid planning, contracts, wills, probate, business law, estate planning, and guardianship. Ms. Craig has lectured to professionals and civic organizations on elder law, Medicaid eligibility, asset protection and estate planning for elders. She was on the District I State Bar Grievance Committee for five years. Ms. Craig earned her B.F.A. degree from North Texas State University and her J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas (Real Property, Wills, Trusts and Probate sections) and the College of the State Bar of Texas. GUY B. GARNER III is the sole shareholder and director of Garner Law Firm, PC, where he practices in the areas of estate planning, asset preservation strategies, planning for IRA's and retirement plan benefits, charitable giving, elder law, Veteran's benefits, and probate and trust administration. Mr. Garner is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association (member, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section - State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association; founding member, WealthCounsel and the Advisors Forum). He has authored and co-authored several works, including most recently, co-author of Estate Planning Strategies-Collective Wisdom Proven Techniques. Mr. Garner has been an active lecturer on estate planning topics for several companies and individual advisors in the past. He earned his B.A. degree in the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom Program, Howard Payne College and his J.D. degree from Baylor University School of Law. S. LEIGH KING is primarily devoted to general civil litigation including breach of contract cases, consumer rights, deceptive trade practices, consumer fraud, family law, and estate planning. In addition to her private practice, she is a law professor at Concordia University and Sullivan University as well a consultant for firms in the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston areas. She earned her J.D. degree from Texas Wesleyan University, where she also worked as a federal and state appellate clerk in addition to serving as a senior editor on the Texas Wesleyan Law Review. She finished her LL.M. at Southern Methodist University with an emphasis in intellectual property. She is the author of the following law review articles: While You Were Sleeping, 11 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev . 291 (2008), which will be incorporated in its entirety by permission by Prof. Thomas K. Clancy, director and research professor of the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law in his casebook Cyber Crime and Digital Evidence: Materials and Cases, a publication of Lexis Nexis; Abandonment: How the Texas Legislature and Family Court System Fail to Meet the Needs of Texas Children, 51 S. Tex. L. Rev. 75 (2009); and Failure to Launch: How the Delinquent Politics and Policies of the Texas Legislature Have Failed to Remedy Texas' Antiquated Judicial System and How Voters Have Accepted the Status Quo for Far Too Long, 16 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 369 (2010). BRIAN THOMAS is an attorney in Dallas, Texas, practicing exclusively in the areas of estate administration, guardianship, estate and tax planning, and wills and trusts. Mr. Thomas routinely assists clients with uncontested probate issues, as well as contested and litigated estate administrations and guardianships in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Prior to establishing his own practice, Mr. Thomas was an associate attorney in both the Houston and Dallas offices of Ford & Mathiason LLP, where he had the opportunity to develop his expertise in these same areas alongside many of the premier practitioners in the state. He earned a B.B.A. degree from Baylor University and his J.D. degree from Baylor Law School. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and serves the association as an active member of its Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee.
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