lskoney@tewlawfirm.com

Capitol View, 500 11th Ave. North, Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37203

Main Office Number: (615) 244-2770
Main Office Fax: (615) 244-2778

Assistant: Patty Skrivanek
pskrivanek@tewlawfirm.com

University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 1985
University of South Carolina-Columbia, B.A., 1982

Lesa is an Estate, Trust and Probate Attorney and a CPA (inactive). She represents individuals and financial institutions serving as Executor, Trustee, Conservator, or Guardian with respect to probate matters and settling estates and trusts of decedents and disabled persons.  She represents clients with litigation issues involving estates and trusts and conservatorships in local probate courts throughout Middle Tennessee.  Lesa also assists clients with planning their estates, and prepares wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable trusts and many other types of trust and estate documentation, with strategies for reducing death taxes and income taxes.  She represents individuals, businesses and fiduciaries in tax audits and appeals with the Internal Revenue Service, and assists fiduciaries with estate and trust tax returns.

She has achieved the highest designation of AV Preeminent from the peer review rating agency of Martindale Hubbell. Lesa has been rated a Super Lawyer in the Thompson Reuters  2013, 2014 and 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers Magazine; named a Top Rated Lawyer in Trusts and Estates, and a Top Rated Lawyer in Taxation Law in the 2014 American  Lawyer and The National Law Journal; and named a 2015 Women Leaders in the Law in Fortune Magazine.