Private Wealth Law - Maine
What the Team is Known For
The Verrill Dana team has a broad range of expertise in private wealth matters, including estate, tax and charitable gift planning. The team also handles probate and trust administration, assists with tax-exempt organisations and represents clients in probate litigation.
Strengths
"Verrill Dana is a very strong trusts and estate practice."
"Verrill Dana is a full-service law firm with skilled practitioners and I would not be reluctant to refer clients to them for sophisticated estate planning work."
"From my perspective, the law firm could not be easier to work with - from support staff to attorneys."
Notable Practitioners
Kurt Klebe advises on estate planning, trust and probate administration and tax matters. He also assists clients with charitable giving plans. "I hold Kurt in high regard. He is so smart and intelligent, he can easily go through a document for a client and find a way to enhance it."
Mary McQuillen is highly respected in Maine for her work advising high net worth clients on trust and estate matters. Her practice involves complex generation-skipping and gift tax strategies, as well as trust administration. "Mary is very practical. She is very good with clients - extremely good at solving problems and at reaching a very efficient solution." "Mary is a very experienced trust and estates lawyer."
Jacqueline Rider advises high net worth clients on probate administration and estate planning. She also handles probate litigation. Rider is chair of the firm's private clients and fiduciary services groups, and co-chair of its probate litigation group. "Jacqueline is a very capable lawyer. I think highly of her." "Jacqueline is an excellent lawyer and I would recommend her in the probate litigation space."