Sarah M. Johnson

Practice Areas

Sarah Johnson is a respected leader in the Washington, DC estate planning community who concentrates on estate planning, trust and estate administration, business succession planning, asset protection, and charitable giving while minimizing income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and as a Top Attorney in the Washingtonian magazine, Sarah focuses on planning for family offices, entrepreneurs, real estate developers, and art collectors. She particularly relishes streamlining and improving existing estate plans for her high-net-worth clients.

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Career

Highlights:

-Engage in sophisticated planning transactions to save estate, gift, generation-skipping and income taxes for clients with net worth from $50 million to $1 billion

-Represented estate with over 80 asset holdings worth almost $1 billion in estate tax filing

-Frequently host and lead family meetings to explain estate plan to multiple generations in warm, caring environment

Personal

Sarah is a Southerner at heart and puts clients at ease with her relaxed, friendly manner. She earns their respect with her attention to detail, honesty and depth of knowledge. A master of organization, she strives to simplify and de-clutter her clients’ estate plans wherever possible.