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Marshall Ney has been making the rounds on the speaking circuit recently in Northwest Arkansas discussing education law, special education law and related matters.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP is proud to announce six attorneys are named by Best Lawyers© as “Lawyer of the Year.” In addition, the publication’s 2018 edition recognizes 52 attorneys, making the firm the highest-ranked firm in Arkansas. Best Lawyers has published their list for over three decades, earning the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals.

Attorney Katie Watson's article on the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act was featured in this week's (August 14-18) Arkansas Business. The article explains what happens to these assets in terms of estate planning and what actions you should take now to ensure your assets are in the right hands later.

Attorney Bill Waddell, a key leader in the state’s access to justice movement, was one of five national recipients of a 2017 American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award. The honor is given to individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services for the poor and disadvantaged.

The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel was held Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain. Speakers included Attorney Don Bacon who presented "Ethics and the Art of Practicing Law Civilly in a (Sometimes) Uncivilized World."

This month's (August) issue of HR Professionals Magazine profiled ERISA and Employee Benefits Attorneys Joesph B. Hurst, A. Wyck Nisbet, David M. Graf, Alexandra A. Ifrah, Brian C. Smith, Joshua M. Osborne and Jeremiah D. Wood of Friday, Eldredge & Clark.

You’ve executed your revocable trust – does that make you probate-proof? No. You still have to fund your trust. Funding your revocable trust (i.e., transferring your assets to your revocable trust) is the only way to ensure that you are probate proof.