Mary’s practice includes estate, gift and income tax planning, business succession planning, asset protection planning, and estate, trust, and guardianship administration. Her estate planning documents range from basic wills and trusts to the sophisticated, including generation skipping transfer tax exempt trusts, family limited partnerships, limited liability companies, grantor retained annuity trusts, residence trusts, private settlement agreements, prenuptial agreements and charitable reminder and charitable lead trusts. Mary also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries regarding their responsibilities and liabilities, and beneficiaries regarding protecting and securing their interests in wills, trusts and powers of attorney.

Bar Admissions

Ohio

Kentucky

Education

• Northern Kentucky University, Chase College of Law (J.D., 1978)
• University of Cincinnati (B.A., 1974)

• Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
• Best Lawyers^© 
  • Trusts and Estates Law (2021-2024)
• Certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, through 2021
• Ohio Super Lawyers^® 
  • Estate & Probate (2021)
• Top 50 Women Lawyers in Ohio, Law & Politics (2007) 
• Glass Ceiling Award at the National Diversity Council Ohio Women's Conference (2010) 

• Kentucky State Bar Association
• Cincinnati Bar Association’s Trust Wills & Estate Planning Section, past chair
• Cincinnati Bar Association’s Advanced Estate Planning Institute, past chair
• Cincinnati Bar Foundation, past president
• American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel, fellow
• Cincinnati Opera Development Committee
• Victorian Society in America, Southwestern Ohio Chapter, treasurer
• Decorative Arts Society of Cincinnati, Board of Directors, president
• Three Arts Scholarship, vice president