Biography
Jacqueline Johnson is a member of the firm's Estate, Trust & Wealth Preservation Practice Group and holds a master's degree in taxation. She focuses her practice on estate planning, tax planning, and estate and trust administration for high-net-worth individuals and families.
Representative Experience
- Consultation with individuals on wealth preservation techniques
- Drafting estate planning documents, such as wills, trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, supplemental needs trusts, irrevocable intervivos trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts and firearms trusts
- Counseling clients in the transfer of closely held business interests
- Advising and assisting clients in the formation and running of private family foundations and other sophisticated charitable planning techniques
- Preparing and reviewing gift and estate tax returns
- Representation of individual and institutional fiduciaries and advising clients of their fiduciary duties, powers, and the interpretation of wills and trusts
- Guiding clients through the probate process and the administration of trusts
- Judicial and non-judicial modification of irrevocable trusts
Legal Services
Education and Honors
- New York University School of Law (LL.M., 2011)
- Degree: Taxation
- American University Washington College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2010)
- General Practice Clinic
- University of Iowa (B.S., with honors, 2007)
- Dean's List
Bar Admissions
- Florida
Professional and Civic Activities
- Florida Bar (The Real Property, Probate and Trust Section) - Member
- Collier County Bar Association (Member)
- Junior League of Fort Lauderdale (Past Member)
- Jack and Jill (Past Young Professionals Board Member)
- Leadership Broward (Class of Thirty-Five)
Professional Recognition
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® "Ones to Watch" (2021, 2022, Trusts and Estates)