He graduated seventh in his class from Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1973 earning his Juris Doctor (J.D.). While attending law school, John worked in the Clerk’s Office of the Douglas County, Nebraska, County Court (Probate Jurisdiction), Honorable Robert Troyer, Douglas County Judge. John is an accomplished attorney with over thirty years of extensive estate planning and business law experience including estate and trust litigation, and has received the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV Preeminent by his peers. John has represented numerous individual and corporate fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and litigants throughout his professional career. John is a frequent speaker on estate planning and estate/trust litigation to professional associations and institutions, and has testified as an expert witness. ×