Kari L. Stephens is a partner at JEFFREY BURR and the managing attorney of the firm’s Las Vegas Office. Kari has been practicing probate and trust law in Las Vegas for nearly 25 years and has previously practiced law in both Oregon and Washington.
Kari is a native Oregonian. She completed her undergraduate studies at Oregon State University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude). Kari went on to study law at Willamette University College of Law, in Salem, Oregon, earning her Juris Doctor (Cum Laude), having graduated fifth in her class. She then began her legal practice in Portland at one of Oregon’s oldest and most respected firms, Samuels Yoelin Kantor, where she represented clients in all aspects of trusts and estates, business formation and tax preparation. Upon relocating to Las Vegas, Kari joined the Wells Fargo Bank Trust & Investments Center, where she managed the local Trust & Estate Settlement Services Department, overseeing the settlement of Trusts over which the Bank had been designated as Trustee. She later joined Goldsmith & Guymon, P.C., as an associate attorney, practicing in the areas of probate and trust administration, estate and tax planning and small business representation. In 2005, Kari joined the trust and estate litigation law firm of Solomon Dwiggins & Freer, Ltd., where she routinely represented fiduciaries, beneficiaries and heirs involving contested matters. Kari was named a partner at Solomon Dwiggins & Freer, Ltd. in 2008.
Kari is actively involved in volunteering her time in the legal community. She is the President-elect of the State Bar of Nevada and will succeed as President on July 1, 2025. Prior to being elected as an officer, Kari has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Nevada since 2014. She also has the distinction of being the 2013 Past-President of the Clark County Bar Association having served on the Association’s Executive Board from 2006-2014. Kari acted as a Trustee for the State Bar of Nevada’s Client Security Fund from 2003-10, during which time she investigated defalcation claims against attorneys on behalf of the State Bar. She is a steadfast member of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar, the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys, the Nevada Latino Bar Association and the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association.
Kari’s practice at JEFFREY BURR focuses on trust administration, probate and estate planning. She is admitted to practice law in Nevada, Oregon and Washington, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada and the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.
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