Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Because we understand your business... we help you plan for the future.

You worked hard to gain your wealth, now let us create a plan to protect it. Regardless of whether you are a top executive, family business owner, or established entrepreneur, we understand your desire to develop and preserve your wealth for future generations.

Our team of experienced attorneys creates customized strategies to help you feel confident that your goals are being accomplished while we care for you and your family’s future. We collaborate closely with your personal accountants, bankers, financial planners, and insurance professionals to ensure an integrated and coordinated approach to your estate and charitable giving plans.

Together we accomplish more than just protecting your wealth; we help you provide security for your family and your business while continuing your charitable giving for years to come. In planning for your future, we make certain you leave a legacy of which you can be proud.

Areas of Practice

• "Stock Redemption" Agreements
• Business Succession Planning
• Close Corporation Agreements
• Elder Law
• Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer (GST) Tax Planning
• Estate Planning
• Financial Powers of Attorney
• Healthcare Powers of Attorney and Living Will Declarations
• Irrevocable "Gift" Trusts for Children and Grandchildren
• Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
• Long-Term Care Planning
• Medicaid Planning
• Probate/Estate Administration
• Revocable Living Trusts
• Stock "Cross-Purchase" Agreements for Shareholders in Closely Held Corporations
• Trust Administration
• Voting Trust Agreements
• Wills

At Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs (“Buckingham”), we believe our clients receive the highest quality legal services when our professionals are an accurate reflection of their communities. In the delivery of these services, lawyers and staff bring all of their experiences, cultures, education and backgrounds to task. We at Buckingham are committed to increasing the diversity of our attorney and staff recruitment, hiring, training, retention and, in the case of attorneys, promotion to partnership. In order to achieve meaningful, measurable and lasting progress toward greater inclusion of diverse legal talent, Buckingham has committed philosophically and financially the resources that we believe will positively impact these goals.

Buckingham has made a concentrated effort to recruit at regional and national law schools with a significant number of diverse law students and we have participated in the Akron, Columbus and Cleveland Bar Associations' Minority Clerkship Programs. We have a diversity committee consisting of partners, associates and staff members from each of our four offices, all of whom assist in developing and maintaining policies to promote a diverse work force within the firm. In the past, we have awarded a minority scholarship to a deserving first-year law student which included both a stipend and a paid summer internship at a Buckingham office.

Our commitment to diversity does not end with the hiring of a candidate. Buckingham has developed a strong mentoring program which ensures: (i) that the work environment and work-related social activities are hospitable and congenial for all attorneys; (ii) that law clerks and attorneys of diversity receive interesting and challenging legal work and receive guidance, mentoring, client contact and performance feedback; and (iii) that we seek effective and committed individuals to serve as mentors in accordance with the Mentoring Program adopted by the Firm.

All of these efforts help ensure that Buckingham successfully recruits and retains diverse candidates thereby creating a firm balanced fully in terms of race, ethnicity and gender. Our commitment to diversity is significant and, we believe, benefits Buckingham, our clients and the communities we serve.