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Complete Client Service
The American Academy's Four Pillars of Support helps attorneys serve their clients' total wealth care needs. Comprised of Estate Planning, Elder Law, Post-Mortem Services and Financial Services, this Four Pillar system allows members to offer clients comprehensive wealth care management with an intergenerational perspective. Armed with the advantage of Academy marketing, legal education and practice management techniques, attorneys become the quarterback of a full service estate planning law practice.

Total Practice Support
Academy members benefit from an unparalleled suite of tools designed to create maximum competitive advantage in every area of their practice.

The Four Pillars of Support program developed by the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys provides complete practice management support, leaving you free to run your practice instead of putting out fires.

  • Technology: Software automating back office processes, eliminating missed deadlines and misplaced files.
  • Legal Documents: Document libraries containing templates for over 30,000 essential estate planning documents.
  • Marketing: Prepackaged seminars and advertising programs.
  • Legal Expertise: Custom legal education training and research.

The Strong Foundation
This Four Pillar approach helps you build a healthy, diversified practice firmly balanced on a strong foundation of client services across the entire spectrum of wealth management. Estate Planning, Elder Law, Postmortem Planning, and Financial Services each form part of the integrated, comprehensive portfolio of services your clients need.

Proven Results
It has been estimated that $14 Trillion in inheritances will change hands by 2050*. Look at your law practice as a business and use the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys Four Pillars practice building approach and see your dreams for your practice become reality.

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* American Statistical Association's 1993 Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, 1993, pp. 11-19.


I left an in-house counsel position at a large bank to start my own practice at a time that the bank was being prepared for a merger and my position was likely to terminate. I had no clients and only a sketch of a business plan in my head. I linked up with a couple of life insurance agents who were giving living trust seminars to prepare the documents for their customers. I was paid separately and had the clients sign a separate engagement agreement. I didn’t know enough about what I was doing and needed a big jump start. I saw an ad for the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys and began to do a lot of due diligence. I borrowed the necessary money for the membership and to hire a very competent secretary, took the training, read the materials and started to do seminars almost immediately.

I now have a partner, an associate and a former partner who is of counsel with my firm. We are keeping 11 full-time and 2 part-time employees busy and manage to bring in close to $2M in revenue each year.


Brad A.— Reno, Nevada Member