Steffensen, Herman, Doggett & Fleming, LLC is a firm of six lawyers with a practice focused on estate and fiduciary matters.   

We offer comprehensive estate planning services, including

• preparation of wills and trusts of all kinds
• implementation of common strategies to reduce or eliminate estate tax
• structuring sophisticated gifting techniques
• planning for incapacity and for beneficiaries with special needs 

We handle all aspects of estate administration:  probating wills, gathering assets, paying bills, keeping accounts, obtaining appraisals, preparing tax returns, and making distributions to beneficiaries.  We serve as counsel to both professional and family executors, and tailor our role to the circumstances of each estate. 

We handle ordinary residential real estate conveyances for buyers and sellers, as well as more complex real estate transactions involving trusts, distributions from estates, and intrafamily gifts and exchanges. 

We provide experienced and sophisticated advice to both professionals and laypersons who are serving as fiduciaries – that is, executors, trustees, guardians, custodians, and agents.  Because fiduciaries are held to unusually high standards of care, guidance as to their legal duties and responsibilities can help avoid pitfalls. 

We take pride in offering excellent results at practical rates.  Our collegial approach offers clients the benefit of our collective insight and experience in the field.  Our usual practice is to bill monthly on a straight hourly basis, and we are typically able to estimate the overall cost of a project after an initial meeting.