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Sam K. Hildebrand

Sam K. Hildebrand

Partner, Austin
512.236.2064
shildebrand@jw.com
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Practice Experience Recognition & Accolades Community Involvement Client Results

Practice Areas

  • Wealth Planning

Experience

  • Asset Protection
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Charitable Planning
  • Family Office
  • Family-Owned Business
  • Fiduciary Advice & Counsel
  • Premarital, Marital, & Cohabitation Agreements
  • Probate, Trust, & Guardianship Administration

Biography

For more than 30 years, Sam K. Hildebrand has helped clients protect their wealth, minimize their estate, gift, and income tax exposure, and convey their wealth to their families and charities in a wise and thoughtful manner. Sam emphasizes establishing strong, long term working relationships with his clients and their professional advisors.

A significant part of Sam’s practice is his work with wealthy families in developing their family office. This involves establishing the formal structures and educating family members on how to satisfy their family goals, including securing the family wealth for themselves and future generations and adhering to their charitable desires.

Sam assists family members and professional fiduciaries with the estate and trust administration process after a death has occurred. While much of this work involves the careful and efficient transfer of property to the intended beneficiaries, Sam also assists with contested probate and fiduciary matters.

Education

A.A., Schreiner University

B.B.A., with highest honors, University of Texas at Austin

J.D., University of Texas School of Law

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1985

Court Admissions

United States Tax Court

Board Certifications

Estate Planning and Probate / Tax

Practice Experience Recognition & Accolades Community Involvement Client Results

Sam represents a wide range of clients, including entrepreneurs, business owners, corporate executives, oil, gas, and mineral owners, farmers, ranchers, entertainers, artists, doctors, professors, athletes, and philanthropists.

His practice encompasses the full breadth of wealth planning and probate, including:

  • Preparation of will and trusts
  • Estate, gift, and income tax minimization
  • Protection against unforeseen claims
  • Charitable planning
  • International estate planning
  • Premarital and marital property agreements
  • Employment agreements
  • Business creation and ownership
  • Planning for potential mental incapacity
  • Estate and trust administration
  • Will contests and fiduciary litigation
  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Fellow
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.)
    • Litigation – Trusts and Estates, 2006-2021
    • Trusts and Estates, 2006-2021
    • Lawyer of the Year – Austin, Trusts and Estates, 2020
  • Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2003-2020
  • Estate Planning Council of Central Texas, Former President
  • State Bar of Texas – Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section
    • Trust Code Committee, 2002-2004
    • Decedent’s Estate Committee, 2015-Present
  • Austin Bar Association – Estate Planning and Probate Section, Former Board Member
  • National Committee of Planned Giving – Central Texas Chapter, Former President
  • University of Texas at Austin’s Planned Giving Advisory Council, Member & Former Co-Chair
  • Equality Texas, Board Member
  • Austin Parks Foundation, Board Member
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Practice Experience

Sam represents a wide range of clients, including entrepreneurs, business owners, corporate executives, oil, gas, and mineral owners, farmers, ranchers, entertainers, artists, doctors, professors, athletes, and philanthropists.

His practice encompasses the full breadth of wealth planning and probate, including:

  • Preparation of will and trusts
  • Estate, gift, and income tax minimization
  • Protection against unforeseen claims
  • Charitable planning
  • International estate planning
  • Premarital and marital property agreements
  • Employment agreements
  • Business creation and ownership
  • Planning for potential mental incapacity
  • Estate and trust administration
  • Will contests and fiduciary litigation

Recognition & Accolades

  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Fellow
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.)
    • Litigation – Trusts and Estates, 2006-2021
    • Trusts and Estates, 2006-2021
    • Lawyer of the Year – Austin, Trusts and Estates, 2020
  • Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2003-2020

Community Involvement

  • Estate Planning Council of Central Texas, Former President
  • State Bar of Texas – Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section
    • Trust Code Committee, 2002-2004
    • Decedent’s Estate Committee, 2015-Present
  • Austin Bar Association – Estate Planning and Probate Section, Former Board Member
  • National Committee of Planned Giving – Central Texas Chapter, Former President
  • University of Texas at Austin’s Planned Giving Advisory Council, Member & Former Co-Chair
  • Equality Texas, Board Member
  • Austin Parks Foundation, Board Member

Practice Areas

  • Wealth Planning

Experience

  • Asset Protection
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Charitable Planning
  • Family Office
  • Family-Owned Business
  • Fiduciary Advice & Counsel
  • Premarital, Marital, & Cohabitation Agreements
  • Probate, Trust, & Guardianship Administration

News

  • Jackson Walker Congratulates Its 54 “Texas Super Lawyers” of 2020
  • ‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Honors 164 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2021 Edition, Including 9 “Lawyers of the Year” and 25 “Ones to Watch”
  • Jackson Walker Advises Whataburger in Sale of Majority Interest to BDT Capital Partners
  • Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 98 Jackson Walker Attorneys
  • 53 Jackson Walker Attorneys Named to 2017 “Texas Super Lawyers” List
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