Gregory N. Barrick
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Gregory N. Barrick is a shareholder of the firm, past director of the firm, and current chair of the firm’s Estate Planning Section. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Barrick worked with Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy in Salt Lake City (from 1986 to 1998), and with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, in Los Angeles, California (from 1982 to 1986).
Mr. Barrick represents clients with respect to family wealth, estate, and asset preservation planning, probate and estate administration matters, charitable giving, and sophisticated business and estate tax planning matters.
He first began developing his expertise in this area of practice while in California, where he worked on such notable estates as the Estate of Howard Hughes, the Estate of Walt Disney, the Estate of Conrad Hilton, among others, along with numerous business transactions requiring advanced planning techniques and strategies.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”), previously serving as the ACTEC State Chair for Utah and as a member of the ACTEC’s State Chair Steering Committee; and currently serving as a member of ACTEC’s Nominating Committee. He also has been an adjunct professor at the University of Utah where he taught Business Law in the David Eccles School of Business.
- Barrick, G. (2010). A Family Centered Approach to Estate Planning. Estate Planning Client Strategies (pp. 57-90). Thomsen Reuters/Aspatore “Inside the Minds” Series.
- Is it Boiler Plate or Not Boiler Plate? That is the Question, Salt Lake Estate Planning Council, Fall Institute 2013
- What Every Advisor Should Know About LLCS (and GPs, LPs, LLPs, LLLPs, and a Few of Their Friends), Grant Taggart Symposium, Brigham Young University School of Business, September 2012
- Status of the Proposed Revisions to Utah’s Guardianship/Conservatorship Statute, Utah State Bar Estate Planning Section, November 2010
- To Give, or Not To Give, That is the Question, BYU Education Week, August 2010
- Charitable Giving in a Low Interest Rate Environment, LDS Philanthropies National Planned Giving Council, October 2009
- Asset Protection Meets Estate Planning: The Perfect Couple, Utah State Bar Estate Planning Section, April 2007
- In Utah (or Alaska, or Maybe Delaware) We Trust: Comparing State Asset Protection Trust Statutes. Central Bank Seminar Series, September 2006
- Demystifying Asset Protection: Are Business Entities a Viable Option? National Business Institute, 2006
- Recent Developments in Personal, Estate and Business Planning, a seminar presentation delivered to the members of the Appeals Unit of Internal Revenue Service’s Western Region, by invitation from the IRS Office of Appeals, 2006
- Ten Things Every Advisor Should Know About Family LLCs, Grant Taggart Symposium, Brigham Young University School of Business, October 2004
- Practice Pointers on Utah Asset-Protection Trusts, Central Bank Seminar Series, September 2004
- FLPs and LLCs Valuation Issues & Effects (Strangi & Hackl) Where is the Safe Harbor Now?, Davis and Weber County Estate Planning Council, 2004
- The “ABC”s of “D”efective Grantor Trusts, presented to the following groups in 2003:
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”), Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Park City, Utah
- Utah State Bar Estate Planning Section; Intermountain Society of CPAs; Southern Utah Estate Planning Council
- All in the Family: FLPs, FLLCs, and Some of Their Relatives, Davis and Weber County Estate Planning Council, 2003; and Family Limited Partnerships, National Business Institute, 1999
- Tax Planning: Business Planning/Personal Planning, 1992 (updated and republished, 1995, 1999, 2003) as part of a Continuing Legal Education sponsored by the Utah State Bar and the University of Utah entitled: Issues in Organizing and Operating a Business
- Estate Planning with Revocable Grantor Trusts, National Business Institute, 2002
- Multiple-Entity Structures (Is this a MES?), 25th Annual Tax Practitioners’ Institute, Westminster College, 2001
- Advanced Post-Mortem Planning, National Business Institute, 2001
- Asset Protection Planning from an Estate Planning Perspective, Utah State Bar Section on Real Property, 2001
- The Role of Advisors in Organizing and Operating Your Company, Utah Governor’s Conference on Economic Development, 2000
- Member, American Bar Association
- Named in Utah Business magazine’s “Legal Elite”
- Listed in Best Lawyers® in America and Mountain States Super Lawyers
- Admitted to State Bar of California in 1982, and the Utah State Bar in 1986
- Admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, 1984
- Member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section and the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association
- Member of the Estate Planning Section and the Tax Section of the Utah State Bar
- Fellow (1995-present) and Utah State Chair (2007-2012), Member of the State Chair Steering Committee (2010-2013), American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and Member of the Nominating Committee (2014-2015).
- Recognized in Who’s Who in North America, Best Lawyers®, Mountain States Super Lawyers and Utah Business (Utah’s Legal Elite) in the fields of both Trusts & Estates and Tax
- Former Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business, teaching Business Law
- Member of American Bar Association Advisory Panel
- Member of the American Judicature Society
- Former Member of the Order of Barristers, Member (2004-present), Chair (2005-2011), Past Chair (2011-present)
- Member of the Executive Council of the Utah Division Board of the American Cancer Society
- United Way of Great Salt Lake Area, 1997 Outstanding Campaign Manager
- Member of the Board of Directors of The Jackson Hole News & Guide (Jackson’s primary newspaper)
- Former President, Pioneer Chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers (1995-1996)
- Former Chairman, Sunrise Services Committee, Days of ‘47 Planning Committee (1995 and 1996)
- Member of the “Grey Hackles” (an informal gathering of fly fishermen)
- Former Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in Denmark
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School – J.D. (1982)
- Chair, BYU Board of Advocates (moot court board)
- Recipient of Certificate of Merit (award given for highest grade in the class) in several classes including Certificate of Merit for Advance Estate Planning
- Recipient, A. H. Christensen Memorial
Brigham Young University – B.A., University Studies (1979)
California
Utah
- Danish