Services · Advanced Planning Counsel Desk

Five ways to work alongside your team.

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

01

Protect Existing Client Relationships

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.

  • Estate, trust, beneficiary, and titling review for coordination gaps
  • Tax exposure and sunset-sensitivity issue-spotting
  • Liquidity, governance, and successor / trustee continuity
  • A clear, plain-language summary your advisor can lead with

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.

02

Win Complex Prospects

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.

  • Cursory-but-meaningful review of the prospect's existing materials
  • Issue list and questions that demonstrate sophistication
  • Meeting strategy for in-person, Zoom, or behind-the-scenes sessions
  • In-house-counsel-style depth, without adding a W-2 attorney

Your advisors walk into the conversation able to frame the planning discussion in a way that is sophisticated, understandable, and credible.

03

Train Advisors to See What They're Missing

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.

  • How $30M families think about risk, liquidity, control, tax, privacy, and legacy
  • How to discuss estate documents without practicing law
  • How to spot disconnects between the estate plan and the financial plan
  • How to work with attorneys and CPAs without losing the relationship

Built for experienced advisors sharpening their craft, younger advisors getting up to speed, and fast-growing teams that need consistent planning language.

04

Attorney-Led Credibility at Meetings & Events

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.

  • Estate planning trends; tax planning and sunset issues
  • Death, dying, legacy, and purpose-driven planning
  • Family wealth transfer; planning for founders and business owners
  • Common trust-and-estate mistakes; preparing heirs and family governance

The aim is to bring attorney-level credibility into the room while keeping the conversation human and accessible.

05

Build the Advanced Planning Function — Before You Hire It

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.

  • Assess whether the team truly needs a full-time planning hire
  • Define the role before hiring; verify the right skill set
  • Build the intake, review, meeting, escalation, and documentation process
  • Train advisors and support staff; confirm the function works once live

A bridge between your current advisory model and a more mature planning desk — built deliberately, not improvised.