Principal Jordan Weitberg will lead a presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) on March 1, 2021. The six member team will discuss attorney’s fee in trusts and estates litigation, including the standards for payment out of the trust fund, best practices for trusts and estates litigation attorneys, and the effectiveness of clauses in wills and trusts that address attorney’s fees. The presentation will be made at a virtual meeting of ACTEC’s 140-member Fiduciary Litigation Committee (including non-Committee members) by its Fiduciary and Attorney Compensation Subcommittee, of which Jordan is the Chair.
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel is a nonprofit association of lawyers and law professors skilled and experienced in the preparation of wills and trusts; estate planning; and probate procedure and administration of trusts and estates of decedents, minors and incompetents. Its more than 2,500 members are called "Fellows" and practice throughout the United States, Canada and other foreign countries. Lawyers are elected to be Fellows based on their outstanding reputation, exceptional skill, and substantial contributions to the field by lecturing, writing, teaching and participating in bar activities. It is their aim to improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and professional responsibility.
For more information about ACTEC, please visit their website.