Practice Profile

Thomas D. Lofton, Attorney at Law

Admitted to/member of:

• Oregon State Bar Association (1990 to date)
• Washington State Bar Association (1996 to date)
• American Bar Association (1990 to date)
• U. S. District Court (District of Oregon) (1991 to date)
• Kirkland Chamber of Commerce (1997 to date)
• Wealth Counsel, LLC (1998 to date)
• Washington State Bar, Committee of Law Examiners (1998- 2002)
• Washington State Bar, Rules of Professional Conduct Committee (2006-07)
• Northwest Small Business Roundtable (1999 to date)

Has presentedseminars to the public and various professionals on the following topics or areas of law:

• Revocable Living Trusts, Testamentary Trusts and Wills
• Elder Law/Disability/Medicaid Planning
• Irrevocable Life Insurance (Wealth Replacement) Trusts
• Charitable Annuity Trusts, Charitable Unitrusts, and Charitable Lead Trusts
• Special Needs (Craven's) Trusts for Handicapped Children or Adults
• Family Limited Partnership Formation
• Limited Liability Company Formation
• Shareholder and Buy/Sell Agreements/Business Succession Planning
• Tax Returns for Estates and Trusts/Probate and Estate Administration
• Asset Protection Planning
• IRA Trusts

Career Overview: While in law school, Mr. Lofton clerked with the U.S. Department of Justice. After passing the Oregon Bar, he worked as an Associate Attorney with Kasson & Murr of Beaverton, Oregon, in the areas of elder law, estate planning and consumer protection. In 1992, he took the position of Regional Corporate Counsel for the Portland Oregon office of SBI, a multistate corporation. Subsequently, after passing the Washington Bar in 1996, he became the Managing Partner of Legal Benefits, a multistate law firm (later known as Lofton & Associates, Inc. P.S.), before merging with Dennis Brislawn to form Brislawn Lofton, PLLC in 1998 (which now includes The Private Client Law Group).