Davis, Burch & Abrams is pleased to announce that Pat Trompeter has joined the firm as Of Counsel, assisting clients with estate planning, trust and estate matters, and business succession planning.
Business Succession Counsel | Estate Planning Attorney
Strategic Planning for Owners, Families, and Private Wealth
Pat Trompeter advises business owners, closely held companies, and families on estate planning, business succession, private wealth strategy, and asset protection. He helps clients create planning structures that reduce uncertainty when leadership, wealth, or family responsibilities need to transition.
Pat is a strategist for businesses and families. For owners, he helps connect succession planning with estate planning so the business, the family, and the wealth behind both are not treated as separate issues. For families and individuals, he also provides conventional estate planning designed to clarify who manages assets, how wealth transfers, and how loved ones are protected.
Business Succession and Estate Planning That Work Together
For founders and closely held businesses, estate planning is rarely just a trust or will. It often involves continuity, control, ownership transition, family expectations, and long-term value.
Pat helps clients think through those issues before an emergency, dispute, or transition forces decisions under pressure. His work is designed to reduce friction, protect value, and create a clearer path for both the business and the people connected to it.
Private Wealth Planning With a Practical Family Lens
Pat also works with families that need thoughtful estate planning, whether that means a traditional trust-based plan, planning for meaningful family assets, or coordinating decisions around incapacity, fiduciary roles, trust administration, asset protection, and wealth transfer.
His approach starts with listening. Before recommending a structure, he works to understand the family dynamics that may affect whether the plan works in real life. The goal is not just documents. It is a plan that can be understood, followed, and trusted when it matters.
Counsel Shaped by Leadership, Business, and Service
Before joining Davis, Burch & Abrams, Pat served as an Assistant Dean at Regent University School of Law, where he also taught leadership and character development. He also practiced as a partner at a boutique estate planning firm, advising clients on estate planning, asset protection, trust administration, and business planning.
Earlier in his career, Pat served on the pastoral staff of a local church and operated a home remodeling business. Those experiences still shape how he works with clients: asking careful questions, identifying what people are really trying to protect, and helping build systems meant to last.