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Carol Warnick
Carol Warnick
Partner
cwarnick@hollandhart.com
Denver Office
555 Seventeenth Street
Suite 3200
Denver, CO 80202-3979
Phone: 303-295-8359
Fax: 303-672-6523
 
Salt Lake City Office
222 South Main Street
Suite 2200
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Phone: 801-799-5800
Fax: 801-799-5700

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PRACTICE AREAS

Private Client Group
Estate Planning and Administration
Wealth Transfer Planning
Business Succession Planning
Trusts and Estates
Estate and Gift Taxation
Tax
Fiduciary Solutions

EXPERIENCE

Ms. Warnick heads the firm's Private Client Group and concentrates her practice on estate and wealth transfer planning and administration, including values-based estate planning. Her clients include executives, owners of closely-held businesses, and families of significant wealth. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, has been selected for publication in Best Lawyers in America, and was honored as one of Worth magazine's Top 100 Attorneys for two consecutive years. She has also been named one of Colorado's top 25 female Super Lawyers. In addition, as a member of the firms' Fiduciary Solutions Group, she advises and represents individuals, corporate and individual fiduciaries, heirs, beneficiaries, and creditors in the resolution of probate or trust related disputes through mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Ms. Warnick actively practices in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

HONORS

Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)

Listed, Best Lawyers in America

Listed, Worth magazine's Top 100 Attorneys

Listed, Top 25 Female Colorado Super Lawyers

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES

"Discretionary Distribution Standards: Full Speed Ahead," (co-authored with Kelly Dickson Cooper and Rebecca Klock Schroer) The Colorado Lawyer, March 2010.

"Drafting Distribution Standards in Changing Times," Colorado Bar Association Estate Planning Retreat, June 2009.

"Is the FLP/LLC Still Viable? Reflections on the Mirowski Case," Salt Lake City Estate Planning Council, November 2008.

"Maturity Markers: A New Paradigm for Trust Distribution Models and Gifting Strategies," Family Firm Institute, October 2008.

"FLPs and Family Family LLCs: Hot Issues and Recent Developments," Colorado Bar Association CLE, November 2007.

"§ 2036 and FLPs - Is the FLP Still Viable???," 2005 Advanced Estate Planning Symposium, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, September 2005.

"§ 2036 and FLPs - The Continuing Saga: Kimbell, Thompson, Bongard and Bigelow," Colorado Bar Association CLE, May 2005.

"Family Limited Partnerships: Taxes, Courts, and an Uncertain Future-Part 2," The Colorado Lawyer, September 2004.

"Family Limited Partnerships: Taxes, Courts, and an Uncertain Future-Part 1," The Colorado Lawyer, March 2004.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Professional Advisory Board, Denver Foundation

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member and Past President, Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council

Member, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming Bar Associations

Member, American Bar Association and Real Property, Probate and Trust Section

Board Member, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Denver Chapter

Member, Denver Estate Planning Council

Member, Salt Lake City Estate Planning Council

EDUCATION

University of Wyoming School of Law J.D. 1991
- With Honors
- Articles Editor, Land & Water Law Review, 1990-1991
- Order of the Coif
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Phi Alpha Delta (Vice-Justice 1989-1990)

Brigham Young University B.A. 1973