I read a column today, published in the Santa Barbara Noozhawk and available online here: http://www.noozhawk.com/local_news/article/111009_mark_cornwall_what_about_retail_wealth_spent_on_estate_planning/, written by an attorney, proclaiming that "the business of estate planning as an attorney has all but fallen off the face of the Earth. Business is dead."
Further, the columnist wrote: "I know this not only from personal experience, but from every attorney specializing in estate planning."
I won't even go into the incredibly poor journalism of that statement (Really? Have you talked to EVERY attorney specializing in estate planning???) ... but am interested in how REAL estate planning attorneys -- like you -- respond to that statement.
Please take a moment and leave a comment here -- if you are a practicing estate planning attorney -- and let us know how business is going for you. Is it dead? Steady? Booming?
Note: If you read the entire column, you discover that the attorney is actually pushing his own elder law seminars to inform and protect wealthy elders who are vulnerable, at least in part because they have disregarded proper estate planning. Certainly an interesting marketing approach. What do you think of THAT?
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