Scott H. Wallace
- Firmwide Chair, Private Client Services Practice
- Seattle
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A leading strategist in trust and estate law, Scott is a champion for his clients’ legacies.
Scott Wallace advises individuals, families, and family offices on comprehensive tax and estate planning.
He minimizes estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes by creating wills, trusts, business entities, and charitable organizations, as well as with gifts, sales, and other sophisticated wealth-transfer strategies. Scott helps clients establish a variety of trusts to meet their specific planning goals, including irrevocable gift trusts for the benefit of a spouse and/or descendants, grantor retained annuity trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, and irrevocable life insurance trusts.
Scott provides tax-efficient planning for individuals and families, fiduciary representation, estate and trust administration, involvement in nonjudicial trust and estate dispute resolutions, formation and administration of charitable organizations, and preparation of gift and estate tax returns.
A recognized leader in the legal community, Scott serves as chair of the University of Washington Estate and Gift Tax Planning Council and as a member of the University of Washington Foundation Board Executive Committee. He has been ranked in Washington state by Chambers High Net Worth every year since 2016.
Organizer Forms
Personal Planning Data Form
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Estate Organizer
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Areas of focus
Education & Credentials
Education
- University of Washington, LL.M., Taxation, 2011
- Seattle University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2007
- University of Washington, B.A., Business Administration, Honors Program, 2003
Bar and Court Admissions
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Washington
Related Employment
- University of Washington School of Law, Estate Planning – Drafting, Adjunct Professor, 2021
- Ahrens DeAngeli Law Group LLP, Associate, 2007-2012; Summer Associate, 2004-2007
Professional Recognition
Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Trusts and Estates, 2021-2025
Ranked in Private Wealth Law, Washington by Chambers High Net Worth (HNW), 2016-2024
Listed in Super Lawyers Magazine, "Washington Rising Star," 2017
Impact
Professional Leadership
- University of Washington Foundation Board, Executive Committee
- University of Washington Estate and Gift Planning Council, Chair
- Fred Hutchinson Professional Advisory Council, Member
- Seattle Estate Planning Seminar, Chair, 2017
- Estate Planning Council of Seattle, Prior Member of the Executive Committee
- Washington State Bar Association
- King County Bar Association
Sections: Taxation; Real Property, Probate and Trust
