Congratulations to Jeff Hamilton for being named a Best Lawyer in Dallas by D Magazine!
Jeff holds an LL.M. in Taxation, is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy, and is board certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is licensed to practice law in both Texas and New Mexico and maintains active practices in both states.
For nearly 18 years, Jeff’s trusts and estates practice has focused on providing counsel to high-net-worth individuals and families, family offices, fiduciaries of estates and trusts, and charitable entities. Jeff’s experience ranges from the most basic estate planning and estate administration exercises to planning for the disposition and management of very complex estates in excess of one billion dollars. Jeff routinely works to help clients protect their wealth and to minimize their estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax exposure. In designing estate plans, it is important to Jeff to help clients convey their wealth to their loved ones and charities in a manner that is thoughtful and consistent with family goals. Jeff endeavors to be a trusted advisor working alongside other members of the advisory team to obtain the best possible outcomes for his clients.
Music was an integral part of Jeff’s youth (playing the piano, saxophone, and cello). He credits this background to being very right and left-brained balanced. Such balance has served him well over the course of his career as estate planning requires the use of logic and mathematics, but also affords so many opportunities for creative and intuitive thinking.
Although Jeff loves coming up with creative strategies to help clients save tax and protect their assets from claims of potential creditors, he is particularly gratified by helping his philanthropic clients foster dreams of impact. As a trained expert in philanthropic giving, Jeff particularly enjoys helping clients articulate and implement their highest hopes for self, family, and the communities they support. To that end, Jeff has extensive experience helping clients establish and operate private and public charitable organizations, charitable remainder trusts, and charitable lead trusts.
D Magazine conducts an extensive search each year for the best legal professionals in the Dallas legal community, asking attorneys across the state to nominate the best of their peers. Their list of the Best Lawyers in Dallas 2024 is published in the May issue of D Magazine.
We are grateful to D Magazine for recognizing Jeff Hamilton!
