Mr. Bowden is an Atlanta native, who attended high school at The Rectory School in Pomfret, Connecticut, before graduating from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. He then attended Emory University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. After college, Mr. Bowden worked for an internationally recognized law firm in Atlanta before enrolling at the Emory University School of Law, from which he earned his Juris Doctor in 2012.

During law school, Mr. Bowden worked for the Honorable Michael Johnson in the Superior Court of Fulton County and the Honorable Julie Carnes in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. After law school, He briefly interned with the Honorable Robert Flournoy, III in the Superior Court of Cobb County.

In February 2013, Mr. Bowden started his own legal practice, Bowden Law, LLC, focusing primarily on estate planning, estate administration, estate litigation, guardianship, conservatorship, and business planning. In March 2017, he affiliated his practice with the firm of Johnson & Ward. Mr. Bowden has extensive experience not only in the estate planning, estate administration, trust, guardianship, conservatorship, and business planning areas, but also in the personal injury, landlord/tenant, domestic relations, creditor/debtor, traffic disputes, and general litigation areas.

Since joining The Bowden Law Firm in January 2020, Mr. Bowden has focused his practice on estate planning, probate and estate administration, trust administration, including the removal and appointment of trustees and judicial and non-judicial trust modifications, business planning, and guardianship and conservatorship appointments, including emergency guardianships and emergency conservatorships.

Ms. Boyd’s practice focuses on estate planning, transfer tax planning, and charitable giving. In particular, she advises clients regarding sophisticated wealth transfer strategies, business succession planning, and the formation and taxation of private foundations and other charities.

Ms. Boyd was a member of the inaugural 2022-2023 class of the Southeast Fellows Institute of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of the 2022-2023 class of the Philanthropic Advisor Leadership Institute. She has previously served as the Secretary of the State Bar of Georgia Fiduciary Law Section Code Revision Committee and currently sits on the boards of two Atlanta charities.

Mr. Brooks is an Atlanta-based estate planning and probate firm serving clients throughout Georgia. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, his alma mater, and holds an LL.M. from the University of Florida Graduate Tax Program. Mr. Brooks is an active member of STEP, the Estate Planning and Elder Law Sections of the Atlanta Bar Association, and various other professional organizations.

Ms. Lacey nationally recognized expert in elder law and special needs planning, she has over thirty years of experience in matters involving estate planning, probate, elder law, and planning for disability. Ms. Lacey is one of a handful of Certified Elder Law Attorneys in Georgia and has been a member of the Special Needs Alliance for over two decades.

Mr. Ouzts is an Associate in the firm’s Jacksonville office. His Practice concentrates on estate planning, trust and estate administration, gift and estate taxation, probate, and representation of tax-exempt organizations. Mr. Ouzts brings a well-rounded background to these areas, drawing from his legal education and practical experience.

Passionate about taxation, Mr. Ouzts obtained his LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law, graduating cum laude. During law school, Forbes was an active member of the Phi Delta Phi Honor Society, the Business, Bankruptcy & Tax Law Society, and the Mercer Low Income Tax Clinic. Mr. Ouzts earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of North Florida. He is licensed to practice law in Georgia and is in the process of becoming licensed in Florida.

Mr. Saunders is licensed in Alabama and Georgia to practice law, and focuses his practice in estate and trust planning and administration, probate matters, and nonprofit/tax exempt organizations.

He assists individuals and families preserve and transfer wealth to their loved ones and charitable organizations by crafting and implementing a variety of estate planning techniques, including the routine preparation of wills, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and revocable and irrevocable trusts. Mr. Saunders also assists individual and corporate administrators, executors, and trustees with estate, probate, and trust administrations. Such strategies focus on advising individuals and families with regards to estate planning, income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax issues, and tax savings and minimizing strategies. He has helped blended families, non-married couples, and others configure optimum estate planning options. Mr. Saunders advises family businesses about succession planning and other entrepreneurs in entity formation matters.

His practice also involves representing beneficiaries of estates and trusts. Mr. Saunders frequently supports a family’s team of accountants, financial planners, insurance agents, and other financial advisors in the preparation of estate plans, and filing of gift tax returns, estate tax returns, and fiduciary income tax returns. He also routinely receives guardian ad litem appointments from local courts.

Mr. Saunders often works closely with nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, from counseling donors in achieving charitable planning and giving goals to helping numerous entities and organizations of all sizes and budgets obtain and maintain federal tax exemption as well as routinely guiding these nonprofit and other tax-exempt organizations with incorporating or designing effective policies.

Mr. Turner has practiced as an estate planning attorney for over a decade with a particular focus on complex estate and wealth transfer planning, wealth preservation planning, and estate and trust administration. His diverse experience includes advising clients on a range of issues, including business succession planning, charitable planning, educating next generation family members, and family office planning.

As a fifth-generation family owner of a Georgia company with diverse asset composition, Mr. Turner understands the complexities and nuances of the intra-family issues that arise in the family business context from both a personal and professional standpoint. This unique perspective on multi-generational estate and family business planning enables him to provide practical and customized solutions that address his clients unique needs and goals.