Our Team

Erin is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and a member of the College of the State Bar. She comes from a large and complex family and so she has focused her practice in estate planning where she can assist clients with difficult issues or situations with unique, custom “solution planning” using wills, trusts, business entities or family limited partnerships.

The firm also does probate and estate administrations, elder law, asset protection for high net worth individuals, LG planning, business formation and business succession planning. She is a teacher and frequent lecturer in these areas. Besides the state and district courts in which she appears, in 2007 she was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Community Involvement

Erin frequently donates her time and legal experience to charities and foundations which benefit women and children in need. She provided the legal work for With Nici’s Heart Foundation, a charity founded for children with catastrophic illnesses including transplant recipients, DSF-Dream a Dream Therapeutic Horsemanship, a foundation for teaching children with special needs to ride horses and LTLOV, a foundation for women and children in need.

Erin also volunteers with Volunteer Legal Services, SafePlace and is active in other volunteer service organizations. She is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, Travis County Women Lawyer’s Association, Dell Children’s Hospital Women’s Trust, Community Advisory Board of the Lakeway Regional Hospital, Austin Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Lake Travis Chamber of Commerce, the Estate Planning Council of Central Texas, the Estate and Probate sections of the respective Bar Associations, she chairs the Texas Forum and she is active in a variety of community and national activities including the Komen Foundation Race for the Cure and the American Heart Association.

Education and Personal

She earned her B.S. and J.D. at Louisiana State University. Geaux Tigers! She has 3 children, 4 horses, a variety of dogs, cats, chickens and exotic birds. When she is not reading, gardening, riding or with her family, she loves to travel.

Jan is active in numerous boards and organizations, including the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, The Lake Travis Chamber of Commerce, The Austin Bar Association, and The Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Texas. She has served as a volunteer attorney at the Center for Legal and Social Justice at St. Mary’s Law School, and on the Board of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio Trust Fund for the Endowments, and the Board for the San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

Jan is a graduate of the University of Houston and received her J.D. from St. Mary’s University. When not practicing law, Jan delights in long hikes on sunny days through the Texas Hill Country, accompanied by Nika, her beloved Blue Heeler.

Practice Area:

Estate planning. Complex estate and trust administration, Income taxation of estates and trusts, Estate, gift, and generation skipping taxation

Education:

University of Texas at Austin, BBA – Finance, Philosophy, 2006

Texas Tech School of Law, JD, 2009

Texas Tech University, Masters – Personal Financial Planning, 2009