Private Wealth Law
Georgia
11 years ranked
Provided by Alston & Bird LLP
A Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, Margaret serves on the boards of many legal committees and nonprofit foundations. She leverages her network and her command of fiduciary law to provide advice on estate planning, charitable planning, and exempt organizations.
Margaret leads the firm’s Wealth Planning and Tax-Exempt Organizations Teams. She concentrates her practice on estate planning, fiduciary and tax litigation, estate settlement, trust administration, charitable planning, charitable solicitation law, and exempt organizations. Margaret provides individuals, families, and institutional and individual trustees with advice on tax issues and estate planning strategies. She frequently helps trustees, executors, guardians, and beneficiaries resolve a broad range of estate and trust disputes, many of which involve complex and sophisticated legal and tax issues.
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Margaret Scott is highly esteemed in the trust and estate community. Scott frequently advises wealthy clients on charitable planning and estate planning.
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Margaret Scott is very proactive, extremely responsive and takes complete ownership of a project. I can't say enough good things about her as she has done an unbelievably good job in an unbelievably complex situation.
Simply stated, Margaret Scott is one of the finest trust and estate lawyers I've ever worked with.
Margaret is a top-notch, go-to attorney when we have high net worth clients. Her name is one of the very first names we think about. She is incredibly professional and cares about clients and peers.
Margaret Scott is well regarded in the charitable planning space. She is approachable and very gracious with her time.
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