Michael D. Allen
Profile
Michael D. Allen has more than 40 years of legal experience, focusing his practice on estate planning, probate and estate administration, business formation, and business succession planning. Mike is a Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate law, as certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, listed in Best Lawyers in America, and selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers magazine for over twelve years. In addition, national directory of attorneys Martindale-Hubbell has awarded him it’s AV Preeminent rating. Mike also serves as a member of numerous professional organizations and regularly teaches seminars on various aspects of business succession and estate planning.
Estate Planning
Probate and Estate Administration
Business Formation
Business Succession Planning
- Bar Admissions:
- Texas, 1976
- Education:
- Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas, 1976
- J.D.
- Austin College, Sherman, Texas, 1973
- B.A.
TEXAS STATE BAR CLE PRESENTATIONS:
- Advanced Estate Planning: How Reasonable Minds Differ
- Advanced Drafting: Documenting Sales to Grantor Trusts
- Advanced Strategies: Advising in Hard Times & Changing Landscapes
- Advanced Drafting: Business Succession Drafting
- Advanced Estate Planning: Installment Sale Strategies
- Advanced Strategies: Planning Between Spouses’ Deaths
- Advanced Strategies: Representing Dysfunctional Families
- Advanced Estate Planning: Representing the Patriarch in Succession Planning
- Advanced Strategies: Life & Death of a Family Partnership
- Advanced Charitable Planning: Enabling Donors to Express Dreams
- Advanced Drafting: Limited Partnership Agreements
- Advanced Strategies: Imagining the Future of Estate Planning
- Advanced Strategies: Sophisticated Solutions for Family Wealth Transfers
- Advanced Strategies: Family Business Succession Planning
- Advanced Drafting: Formula Gifts of LP Interests
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ALI-ABA PRESENTATIONS:
- Family Business Succession Strategies programs in Chicago, Scottsdale, Boston, San Francisco and Toronto
Board Certified – Estate Planning and Probate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Best Lawyers in America – Trusts & Estates
Texas Super Lawyer – 15 years Texas Monthly
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating
Trustee – Austin College, Sherman, Texas, Senior Board
Development Board – UTHNE, Tyler, Texas, Chair 2016 – 2018
Member – Mercy Ships Operating Board
Member – Samaritan Counseling Center of Tyler, Governing Board
Member – University of Texas at Austin, Planned Giving Advisory Council
Member – East Texas Communities Foundation, Governing Board (18 years)
Trustee – Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary 2000-2010
Director – Texas Presbyterian Foundation, Development Chair 1994-2003
Director – Fourth Partner Foundation 2008-2014
Trustee, Elder, Deacon – First Presbyterian Church Tyler