Alan Freer

Practice Areas

Asset Protection Litigation

Asset Protection Risk Assessment

Business Litigation

Guardianship

Private Wealth Litigation

Trust and Estate Administration

Trust and Estate Litigation

Career

Alan Freer is a member of the firm’s management committee, where he focuses his practice primarily on trust and estate litigation. Alan also handles all aspects of trust and estate administration, and routinely represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in contested matters. He has substantial experience in challenging and defending the validity of estate planning documents, including wills, codicils, trusts, and amendments. Alan routinely prosecutes and defends claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, undue influence, breach of trust, accounting, fiduciary removal, competency, lack of capacity, unjust enrichment, closely held business disputes, and elder abuse.

Alan represents beneficiaries, fiduciaries, and grantors in contested matters from prelitigation case assessment and dispute negotiation, to all stages of litigation, including trial and appellate practice. Additionally, he has represented fiduciaries in complex administrations, including multi-jurisdictional and international issues, sophisticated business succession plan implementation, bringing a litigation perspective to assess and implement intended plans.

More recently, Alan has been actively engaged in the expanding area of domestic asset protection (spendthrift) trust litigation. He has represented creditors, beneficiaries, trustees, and grantors in both attacking and defending asset protection trusts.

Alan is a Fellow with The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and has received the highest AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America since 2016, and received awards for the Lawyer of the Year for Southern Nevada in the area of Trust and Estates (2020) and Trust and Estate Litigation (2017, 2021, and 2023). He has also been recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in the Mountain States region by Super Lawyers from 2018 to present.

Alan is a member of the State Bar of Nevada and recently completed serving a twelve-year period on the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, including a two-year term as committee chair. Currently, he serves on the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board and as a co-chair of the Legislative Committee for the Probate and Trust Section (a position he has held since 2014) for the State Bar of Nevada. Alan also volunteers as a mentor for the State Bar of Nevada’s Transitioning into Practice Program (TIP) since 2015, where he has assisted and trained newly licensed lawyers on Nevada-specific rules, procedures, ethics, and best practices.

Professional Memberships

Transitioning into Practice (TIP) Mentor, State Bar of Nevada, 2015–Present

American Bar Association, Trust and Estates Sections, Section of Real Property, Estate and Trust Law, 2001–Present

State Bar of Nevada, Probate and Trust Section, 2001–Present

Clark County Bar, Clark County Nevada, 2001–Present

Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Nevada State Bar, 2010–2022; Chair 2012–2014

Fellow, The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), 2020

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Publications

Co-author, Forum Fortified: The Power and Procedure of In Rem Jurisdiction in Nevada Trust Law, Communique, May 2025

Co-author, Legislative Update in re Probate and Trust – Bill # SB407, Communique, September 2023

Co-author, Probate and the Pandemic: Legislative Changes Enacted in the Wake of COVID-19, Communique, November 2021

Remote Signing, Nevada State Summary, Leimberg Information Services, Inc. (LISI), ed. Martin Shenkman/Jonathan Blattmachr, June 2020

Five Tips to Avoid Client Trust Account Money Laundering, Communique, January 2020

It’s Time for the NRS 162A Power Play: Changes and Challenges to Powers of Attorney, Nevada Lawyer, January 2020

Probate & Trust Updates from AB 286, Communique, September 2019

Probate “Pro-Tip” Primer, Nevada Lawyer, January 2018

All Aboard the Omnibus: Highlights of AB 134 Changes to Probate and Trust Law, Communique, September 2017

SB484 – Changes to Probate and Trust Law, Communique, September 2015

Attention to Client Considerations When Designating a Business Succession Plan Ensures Effective Implementation, Aspatore, November 2014

Lateral Hires: A Primer to Minimizing Imputed Disqualification, Nevada Lawyer Magazine, March 2013

Education