Mr. Lane's clients include family offices, owners of closely held businesses, corporate executives, principals of venture capital and private equity funds, and professional athletes. He recognizes that lost wealth transfer opportunities are among the biggest threats to wealth preservation. Accordingly, he is a proactive planner and works closely with clients and their banking relationship managers, family office personnel and financial planners. He also consults with executors, administrators, guardians and trustees in probate and trust administration.

Mr. Lane has substantial experience designing and implementing wills and trusts, lifetime gift programs, premarital agreements, asset protection strategies, family limited partnerships, corporate recapitalizations, private annuities, installment sales and other planning transactions.

Mr. Lane draws upon his experience as a certified public accountant to review and manage estate and gift tax returns (including complex reporting and valuation issues), advises clients in connection with litigation involving trust and tax matters, and handles matters for charitable trusts, foundations and nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Lane has also been selected as a "Leading Lawyer" in Illinois for estate planning by his peers and is a contributing author to 21st Century Estate Planning: Practical Applications, an estate planning treatise used at many major law schools.

Prior to working as a lawyer, he was a tax consultant and auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co.