Services · Advanced Planning Counsel Desk
Every engagement is attorney-led, advisor-fluent, and framed in compliance-aware language. We help you protect relationships, win complex prospects, train advisors, add credibility, and build a real planning function — without adding a full-time W-2 attorney to payroll.
Legal services provided where licensed (Michigan & Tennessee) or with appropriately licensed local counsel
Client Relationship Audit
Your most valuable relationships deserve a second look before someone else gives them one. We review the planning architecture around your best clients and confirm whether the plan is actually coordinated, current, funded, tax-aware, and aligned with the client's stated goals — not simply documented.
The goal is simple: help the advisor lead with value, and reduce the risk that a competitor, outside attorney, CPA, or next-generation family member finds the issue first.
Prospect Case Review
Someone else's best client is your best prospect. When a major prospect shares estate documents, entity structures, insurance schedules, tax returns, or trust diagrams, we perform a focused review to surface likely planning gaps, opportunities, and meeting strategy — before the engagement.
Your advisors walk into the conversation able to frame the planning discussion in a way that is sophisticated, understandable, and credible.
Advisor Training · "$30 Million Families" Series
Practical, advanced, advisor-focused education — not generic CE. Our custom training, including the "How to Talk to $30 Million Families" series, teaches advisors how to recognize planning gaps, ask better questions, avoid overstepping, and create more valuable conversations with wealthy families.
Built for experienced advisors sharpening their craft, younger advisors getting up to speed, and fast-growing teams that need consistent planning language.
Speaking & Custom Presentations
Custom presentations and live support for advisor events, client events, professional-referral gatherings, and private practice meetings — thoughtful, emotionally intelligent, technically credible, and client-friendly.
The aim is to bring attorney-level credibility into the room while keeping the conversation human and accessible.
Advanced Planning Function Consulting
Many professionals can either do advanced planning work or build an advanced planning department. Fewer can do both. We help advisor teams assess and build the function before they are ready to hire a full-time W-2 advanced planning attorney — and serve as the fractional counsel in the meantime.
A bridge between your current advisory model and a more mature planning desk — built deliberately, not improvised.
Start here
Most teams start with a planning-risk review of a top client relationship or a major prospect case — the cleanest way to see the Counsel Desk in practice.