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Estate Planning Council of Seattle
Our primary mission is to educate and provide resources to estate planning professionals. Our website, www.epcseattle.org gives you access to unbiased information about estate tax-planning strategies, wills, trusts, business succession, and other topics guide your estate planning. The Council is composed of local attorneys, CPAs, trust officers, insurance professionals, financial planners, and members of the planned giving community whose professional careers are centered around helping individuals achieve their estate planning goals.
Estate Planning Seminar
The Estate Planning Seminar is approaching it’s seventh decade of educating planning professionals and we strive to continue to grow and provide the very best in continuing education for our industry. Our goal is to bring education, networking, and community to EPC members and non-members alike.
2025 Seminar Chairs
Chair:
Matt Tilghman-Havens
Senior Vice President & Director of Wealth Strategy, Washington Trust Bank
Matt Tilghman-Havens, Senior Vice President, serves as the Director of Wealth Strategy of Wealth Management & Advisory Services. Within a multidisciplinary team, he provides clients with wealth strategy, investment management, and trust and estate services.
Matt brings nearly 20 years of experience in tax, trust and estate law and wealth strategy to the service of his clients. He balances warm, genuine communication with strong fiduciary experience to develop deep, collaborative relationships with clients and their professional advisors.
In each relationship, Matt strives to partner with clients to help them realize their goals. He is especially passionate about helping individuals and families navigate the challenging waters of retirement, education and care of loved ones, and philanthropic works.
Co-Chair:
Alex E. Hurt
Associate, KL Gates LLP
Alex Hurt is an associate in the estate planning and trusts & estates group in the firm’s Seattle office.
Alex’s practice focuses on estate planning and trust and estate administration. This practice ranges tax planning, wealth succession and preservation strategies, multigenerational wealth transfer, asset protection, charitable giving, and general business and business succession planning. He also represents clients in probate proceedings and trust administration, as well as estate and trust dispute resolution. His practice includes both planning for clients’ personal needs, and advising clients in their fiduciary capacities.
Alex is a native Washingtonian, growing up in the Edmonds area. He graduated cum laude from Seattle University School of Law and received a Masters of Law in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He currently serves as board member for Seattle Children’s Next Generation Legacy Advisors, and previously served as a trustee for the Eastside King County Bar Association.
2024 Advisory Board
Professor Karen E. Boxx, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
Wendy S. Goffe, Partner, Ogden Murphy Wallace
M. Read Moore, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Steven J. Schindler, Partner, Perkins Coie
Akane Suzuki, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP