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| WILLIAM E. DAVIS |
Phone: (202) 822-8888 |
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Fax: (202) 775-9330 |
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| Practice Areas: Trust and Estate Planning and Administration; Fiduciary Litigation; Private Foundations; and Business Succession Planning |
| Education: J.D., William and Mary, 1968; A.B., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1965 |
Bar and Court Admissions: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1971); District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1974); Court of Appeals of Maryland (1984); the several Courts of
North Carolina (1968); Supreme Court of the United States of America (1974) |
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William E. Davis concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, fiduciary litigation and business succession planning.
Mr. Davis is a member of the District of Columbia Bar (former Treasurer), the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (former President), the Maryland, North Carolina, and American Bar Associations and is a former delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. He has served as a member of the several AdHoc Task Forces that reviewed and developed District of Columbia trust and estate legislation enacted as the Probate Reform Act of 1994, the Omnibus Trusts and Estates Amendment Act of 2000, and the Uniform Trust Act of 2003. Mr. Davis is a former Co-Chair of the Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section of the D.C. Bar, which was awarded the Best Bar Section during his tenure, and is the Editor of the D. C. Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Digest. He is a member of the Washington, D. C. Estate Planning Council and a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) in which he serves on the State Laws and Fiduciary Litigation Committees as well as on the D. C. State Committee. Mr. Davis is also a member of the D.C. Superior Court Advisory Committee on Probate and Fiduciary Rules. He is an Adjunct Professor of Trusts and Estates at George Washington University Law School and is listed in the 2005 and 2006 Editions of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Davis was also listed as one of the best estate planners in the Metropolitan area by The Washingtonian magazine (December, 2002).
Publications: International Estate Planning, District of Columbia Bar Sections publication, 2006; Administration of Decedents Estates in the District of Columbia, CLE Publication of the District of Columbia Bar, Published annually 1992-2005; Part I of the three-part Estate Planning Series, CLE Publication of the District of Columbia Bar, Published annually 1993- 2006; Recent Developments in the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Bar Sections Publication, 2004, 2005, and 2006; The Omnibus Trusts and Estates Amendment Act of 2000, CLE Publication of the District of Columbia Bar, 2001.
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