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Corporate Law
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Greg Fullerton is the senior partner in the firm's estate planning and taxation practice area. He has extensive experience and expertise in the areas of wills, trusts, probate, business and partnership law, taxation, and retirement plans. He lectures regularly on these topics of law to diverse audiences, and he has authored a number of articles which have been published in national estate planning journals. Greg has also served as an adjunct professor on estate planning at Darton College.
Greg is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and Georgia SuperLawyers. A member of the State Bar of Georgia since 1975, Greg has represented the Dougherty Circuit on the State Bar of Georgia's Board of Governors since 1992. He also chairs the State Bar's Disciplinary Review Panel and is the Bar's liaison with the State's probate judges. During his career, Greg has chaired the State Bar's Taxation and Fiduciary Law Sections as well as its Commission for Continuing Lawyer Competency and its Advisory Committee on Legislation. He served on State Bar commissions that rewrote the Georgia Probate Code and the Georgia Guardianship Code. Currently, Greg is a member of the State Bar commission that is revising the Georgia Trust Code. He is also a Fellow of the Georgia Bar Foundation and serves on various American Bar Association committees on taxation and estate planning.
Greg graduated from Yale University magna cum laude with honors in political science. In 1975, he earned his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review. He is admitted to the Bars of the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court as well as those of local, regional, state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Born in Oklahoma City, Greg moved to Albany with his family in 1959. Through the years, Greg has been active in the city's community affairs. He is a charter member of Leadership Albany and a past president of the Albany Museum of Art, the Albany Concert Association, the Southwest Georgia Boy Scout Council, and the Albany Estate Planning Council. He also has served as state vice-chair of the Georgia Council for the Arts and as a delegate of the Association of Yale Alumni. Greg has been a Kiwanian and the chair of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee for Southwest Georgia for nearly 30 years.
Greg and his wife, Carol, a former chairman of the Board of the Georga Department of Community Health, have two grown children and are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Albany, where Greg has served as a Vestryman and Senior Warden. |