About
Pat Campbell is an Estate Planning and Probate lawyer. She has spent most of her more than forty year legal career at Graves Dougherty where her practice covers a broad range of estate planning, tax and probate matters.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Admitted: 1978, Texas.
- Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1996-2025
- Education: University of Texas (B.A., with highest honors, 1975; J.D., with high honors, 1978). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif; Chancellors; Texas Law Review, 1976-1977; Teaching Quizmaster in Legal Research and Writing, University of Texas School of Law, 1977-1978; Law Clerk to the Honorable Irving L. Goldberg, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1978-1979.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Preparation of simple and complex wills and trusts
- Asset protection and wealth preservation planning
- Marital property planning, including prenuptial and postnuptial planning
- Federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, including preparation of gift and estate tax returns
- Gifts to minors, incapacitated persons, and others, including charitable planning
- Probate, estate, and trust administration
- Assisting executors in the administration of decedent’s estates and trustees in the administration of trusts
- Transfer tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service, including private letter ruling requests
- Planning for incapacity, including management trusts, powers of attorney, and advance directives
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- State Bar of Texas
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® published by Woodward/White, Inc., Trusts and Estates, (2006 – 2025)
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating, Martindale.com
- Texas Monthly, Super Lawyers®, published by Thomson Reuters, 2008-2011, 2016-2019
COMMUNITY
- Family Eldercare, Board of Directors, 2008-2011
- Austin Empty Bowl Project, Advisory Committee