Yates, Campbell & Hoeg LLP, Fairfax, VAMr. Dar is an attorney with Yates Campbell & Hoeg LLP, a boutique trusts and estates law firm in Fairfax, Virginia. In total, he has over 12 years of experience in the area of trusts and estates, having previously practiced at large national firms and having worked at a multi-family office. With that kind of experience, Mr. Dar has dealt with a wide variety of matters, from traditional wealth planning to more sophisticated transfer techniques, as well as post-mortem administration and fiduciary litigation. He received his B.A. degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Michigan and his J.D. degree from NYU School of Law, where he served on the Law Review.

Hometown Estate Planning, Manassas, VARichard Phillips is a former trial attorney who now devotes his work exclusively to estate planning law and assisting families achieve peaceful wealth preservation. He received a B.A. degree from James Madison University in 1995 and a J.D. degree from George Mason University School of Law in 1999. He is a member of the Prince William Chamber of Commerce and occasionally donates his legal experience to non-profit organizations.

Paul F. Riekhof is a principal in the Estates and Trusts Group of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake in Maryland. Mr. Riekhof has represented individuals, families, and businesses in all aspects of estate planning, estate and trust administration, guardianship, and estate litigation matters for more than 20 years. Mr. Riekhof’s practice includes advising clients concerning their wealth preservation, family business and farm preservation, and gift planning issues. He has extensive experience establishing special needs trusts and discretionary trusts to conserve assets for the benefit of disabled individuals, establishing irrevocable trusts to remove insurance and other assets from estates, and establishing revocable trusts for probate avoidance and disability planning. He is a member of the Maryland, Montgomery County, American and District of Columbia bar associations. Mr. Riekhof earned his B.A. degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago and his J.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Law.

Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian P.C., Manassas, VAMr. Wilks is a shareholder at Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, having practiced law in Northern Virginia and Prince William County for more than 25 years. Throughout that time, he has concentrated his practice in estate and trust planning and administration, business and real estate, and certain tax matters. Mr. Wilks has been recognized by his peers in the legal community both locally and statewide for his legal ability and high ethical standards in the legal areas in which he concentrates his practice. For instance, Mr. Wilks has been named as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by the Virginia Business magazine in the areas of taxes, estates, trusts and elder law every year since 2014. Since 2010, healso has received the “AV Preeminent” rating, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review, for his legal ability in the fields of business, estate planning and estate and trust administration and for his general ethical standards. Mr. Wilks also is a frequent lecturer, speaking at programs not only sponsored by civic and charitable groups designed to educate the general public on legal issues within his area of concentration, but also to other attorneys, accountants and financial professionals in programs qualifying them for their required annual continuing education credit.