The Law Office of Heather Flanagan seeks to educate its clients on all facets of estate planning in a comfortable, friendly environment. Recognizing that people need to understand the process of estate planning, Ms. Flanagan spends time with her clients, discussing options, and making recommendations. Clients are offered a wide range of services starting with the basics: wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care documents and escalating to more advanced planning services such as irrevocable life insurance trusts, business succession planning, incorporation, charitable trusts, special needs trusts and probate and trust administration. The firm is dedicated to providing excellent service to all clients and coordinating with clients’ advisors and family members. “Preparing an estate plan is hard work for you and my law firm. I am committed to providing you with a quality estate plan and with a good experience as I guide you through this process.” ---Heather Flanagan

What distinguishes us from other firms? Commitment to tailoring estate plans to client-specific needs: we are committed to designing an estate plan that works best for you, not recycling plans that worked well for others. Free phone call policy: we do not charge for phone discussions with our attorneys. Updates on the law: we keep our clients updated on changes in laws that may affect their estate plans. Tax expertise: Ms. Flanagan graduated with a LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida.

After receiving her post-doctoral degree from the University of Florida in Taxation, Heather Flanagan established her private practice in Gainesville, Florida. Ms. Flanagan provides a wide spectrum of estate planning services including wills, trusts, probate, powers of attorney, health care directives, business succession planning, corporate formation, long-term care planning, asset protection planning and tax planning, all in a comfortable and private setting. Ms. Flanagan likes to take the time to get to know her clients and their unique needs and explain complicated legal issues in a readily understandable format. Her commitment to her clients continues by updating them when there are changes in the law that may affect them and keeping a free phone call policy for all clients.

Ms. Flanagan received her undergraduate degree with distinction on academic scholarship from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1989 and her Masters degree from the University of California Los Angeles. She earned her law degree (J.D.) on full scholarship in 1995 from Creighton University School of Law, cum laude. After ten years of practice, Ms. Flanagan returned to school and earned a Masters of Law in Taxation (LLM) from the University of Florida as a graduate tax scholar. She is married and the mother of two daughters.

Ms. Flanagan is bar certified in Nebraska, Arizona, California and Florida and has practiced estate planning in each of those states over the last eleven years. She is a certified Family Mediator in Florida. She also received her Certified Specialist in Planned Giving certificate from the American Institute for Philanthropic Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She is a board member for the Ronald McDonald House of North Central Florida and is on the Advisor's Council for the Gainesville Community Foundation. Ms. Flanagan has dedicated her career to helping families secure their assets and plan their affairs so that they may be informed and have the peace of mind to know that they have taken care of their loved ones.

• Piper Call is the Legal Assistant with the Law Office of Heather Flanagan. She has been with the firm since 2008. To contact her, click here.