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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Private Wealth Law

High Net Worth Guide 2025 : Alabama

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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Bradley attorneys provide sound and creative advice to individuals and families in structuring estate plans to meet their needs. We guide our clients through the maze of the estate tax rules to develop estate plans that meet both their tax and non-tax goals.

In developing and implementing estate plans for our clients, our attorneys not only discuss wills (or living trusts) with our clients, we also provide counsel on a wide range of other tax and non-tax issues including:

  • Business succession planning, including buy-sell agreements
  • Asset protection planning, including the use of asset protection trusts
  • Retirement benefit planning
  • Beneficiary designation planning
  • Techniques to reduce the value of client's estate, including irrevocable trusts, gifting programs, and qualified personal residence trusts
  • Techniques to freeze the value of a client's estate, such as grantor retained annuity trusts and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts
  • Charitable giving techniques, such as charitable remainder trusts that may provide our clients with income, estate and gift tax benefits
  • Advance healthcare plans and/or living wills

Chambers Review

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Private Wealth Law - Alabama

Band 1

What the Team is Known For
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings maintains a solid reputation in Alabama for its trust and estate expertise, and has a strong presence in Birmingham. The law firm handles the full range of tax, trust and estate matters, and offers additional expertise in charitable, business succession and retirement planning issues. Its clients include business executives, business owners and other affluent individuals and families.
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Strengths

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  • They have a depth of knowledge regarding current and potential tax laws. The team has many very qualified lawyers who always give a quick response.

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  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has a very deep bench, all of their lawyers have outstanding reputations in the community. Any time I need a document, the team turns it around ASAP.

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  • The firm has deep knowledge, especially in the estate and gift area, they have always handled complex matters well.

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  • Bradley is my top choice for complex matters. Their attorneys generally display good judgment and are effective communicators.

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  • For estate planning and administration, as well as complex elements like high net worth and cross-border matters, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings is an extremely competent law firm.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Ralph Yeilding
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    Ralph Yeilding

    Ralph Yeilding has a strong reputation in trust and estate planning.

    • Ralph has been excellent to work with. He does a good job balancing attention to detail with diligently working through the issue to completion.

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    • He is very intelligent.

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  • Scott E. Adams
    Scott E. Adams

    Scott E. Adams

    Scott Adams is a highly esteemed attorney who focuses his practice on estate planning and tax matters. Adams is particularly praised by sources for his wealth planning expertise and client service.

    • Our interactions with Scott have been exceptional. His expertise is unmatched and his responsiveness is stellar.

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    • Scott is top notch, he might be the smartest lawyer I have worked with. He has done such a great job with clients, especially at educating them. I really value his opinion.

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    • Scott is thorough, smart and very ready to come to the table with comprehensive recommendations.

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    • Scott is an excellent estate planning attorney and adviser. His attention to detail and knowledge are his strengths and he works well with other advisers.

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    • Scott is very sharp and dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for his clients.

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  • Bradley Lard
    Bradley Lard

    Bradley Lard

    Bradley Lard regularly advises affluent families and business owners on trust and estate planning, as well as business succession issues.

    • Brad is quite knowledgeable and professional. He's very easy to work with.

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    • He is extremely intelligent.

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    • He is always exceedingly prompt in his response time to our questions, inquiries, or requests and is the ultimate knowledgeable professional.

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    • Bradley Lard is excellent for financial planning, business succession and life insurance. His work on spousal lifetime and irrevocable licensed trusts is impressive.

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  • Nancy Ball
    Nancy Ball

    Nancy Ball

    Nancy Ball has a growing practice advising wealthy clients on the full suite of trust and estate matters.

    • She genuinely cares about clients. She is down-to-earth and has genuine relationships with the clients. She's very highly rated on technical side,

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    • Nancy is top-notch.

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    • Nancy is exceptional in how she analyses a situation, and she has the expertise to tackle complex problems. She is collaborative and is focused on solutions while serving her clients well.

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    • She is highly competent and is a very good estate planning lawyer.

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