Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith

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  • Established in 1987
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  • Excellence in legal counsel with an emphasis on value. Galloway is a premier litigation law firm with 12 offices across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Missouri.
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Estate Planning & Administration

Estate planning provides you and your family with confidence that your estate will be preserved from excessive taxation, that your health care needs can be met, and that your estate is protected from imprudent spending. Prudent planning directly and positively benefits you and your loved ones. The Galloway estate planning team will be able to determine the value of your estate and how to legally protect it from confiscatory taxes. We can create a plan to distribute your estate that preserves its value and protects your heirs to ensure the financial security of those you love. If you do not plan for what happens to your estate upon your death, the government will decide how your estate is distributed. In addition, proper estate planning can help protect your assets from creditors, both during life and after death.

Once your estate plan is in place, you also want to ensure that your wishes are carried out. Our attorneys assist executors and heirs in administering estates and in probate and succession proceedings, and regularly counsel clients on planning for administration of both large estates and modest estates. Our attorneys are trained in the field of estate planning and taxation, and can assist with planning and estate administration needs in a variety of ways:

  • Developing estate plans that are personalized for each family, including preparation of simple to complex wills, trusts, and donations
  • Developing strategies to minimize exposure to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes
  • Representing guardians to determine incapacity through the closing of the guardianship estate
  • Developing plans to address business, personal, and health care decisions in the event of incapacity
  • Developing plans to address special needs beneficiaries
  • Representing personal representatives and executors in probate proceedings and in administering successions and estates
  • Developing plans for business succession
  • Creating plans for charitable giving
  • Representing parties in tax, probate, and trust disputes
  • Preparing wills, testamentary trusts, and irrevocable or revocable living trusts
We are committed to assisting our clients through these highly personal matters with care, compassion, and discretion, recognizing that what may work for one family, may not be appropriate for another. We know that one size does not fit all. So, we take time to understand our client’s personal situation and develop the most appropriate solutions as a result. And we encourage a team approach to estate and business planning, ensuring that our client’s accountant, financial advisor, insurance professional, and other advisors are all working together to achieve the desired goal.

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  • 5.0/5.0 Review for Donald P. Moore by a Principal on 08/09/13 in Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act

    Mr. Moore is a defense attorney and I frequently represent clients that sustained an on-the-job injury at the employer's facility for his client. I have found that he thoroughly knows the LHWCA law. Mr. Moore is an able opponent and treats his client... Read more

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  • 5.0/5.0 Review for Matthew M. Williams by a Partner on 04/24/13 in Civil Litigation

    Matthew is a brilliant young attorney who brings 100% of his energy into his efforts to best serve his clients. He is a superior young attorney.

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Diversity

Galloway offers its clients a team of professionals that reflect both our commitment and our clients’ commitment to diversity. Diversity enhances the quality of our legal services just like it enhances our clients’ businesses. Our goal is to attract and develop the most talented and motivated professionals while insuring fairness, respect and opportunity for advancement regardless of race, gender, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or other protected status.

Our firm’s commitment to diversity is reflected in our member's civic, legal, and industry leadership.

Galloway commits to the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Diversity Pledge
Galloway is proud to support the LSBA’s Diversity Statement of Principles and make the following commitment:

Those signing this Statement of Principles hereby commit themselves to foster diversity in the legal profession. The LSBA recognizes that diversity is an inclusive concept that encompasses race, color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability and other aspects of diversity.

We believe that with greater diversity, we can be more creative, effective and bring more varied perspectives, experiences, backgrounds, talents and interest to the practice of law and the administration of justice. We further believe that a diverse group of talented legal professionals is critically important to the success of every law firm, corporate or government legal department, law school and public service organization and every other organization that includes attorneys.

We recognize that to fully and equitably pursue justice, our profession must reflect the full spectrum of our communities. To this end, we pledge to make our best efforts to increase the diversity in our hiring, retention and promotion of attorneys and the elevation of attorneys to leadership positions within our respective organizations. We believe that all members of the bar should participate equally and fully in our profession. Ultimately, we believe that diversity, in the legal profession is good for the profession, good for business, good for our communities and critical for enhancing the public’s confidence in the judicial system.

Galloway believes that achieving diversity within our organizations and creating inclusive environments are evolutionary processes that require a continued effort and commitment on our part. We pledge to promote and participate in appropriate diversity awareness training programs. We further agree to participate in programs to measure our progress in the pursuit of these stated principles.

Galloway sponsors 21st Annual Minority Job Fair
Galloway was proud to serve as a Gold Level sponsor of the 21st Annual Minority Job Fair, hosted by the Louisiana State Bar Association. Our directors and associates who attended were pleased to see a fantastic number of talented law students take advantage of this year’s event. We believe that our leadership in such endeavors forms an essential part of our commitment to diversity in the legal profession.

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