ABOUT
John’s practice focuses on a broad range of client needs including estate and gift tax planning, tax
planning, the management and preparation of estate plans, and the creation of various estate
planning documents including wills, powers of attorney, and various trusts. His experience also
includes estate planning matters related to charitable planning, estate administration, international
estate planning, and the creation and preparation of family limited partnerships and limited
liabilities companies as estate planning tools.Johnalso has experience working onmatters involving
probate and trust litigationand expert witness preparation.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Admitted to Texas Bar, November 2012
Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL (LL.M in Taxation, with honors, May 2013)
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX (J.D., cum laude, May 2012)
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (M.S. in Personal Financial Planning, May 2012)
University of Missouri – Columbia, Columbia, MO (B.J., cum laude, May 2009)
Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, Fort Worth, TX, Associate, June 2013 – April 2015
JOHN W. CONNER
Shareholder
Board Certified in Estate Planning
and Probate Law
ESTATE PLANNING, PROBATE & TRUSTS,
FIDUCIARY, PROBATE & TRUST LITIGATION,
TAX PLANNING & CONTROVERSY,
CORPORATE & SECURITIES
DIRECT PHONE:
512.480.5612
DIRECT FAX:
512.480.5812
EMAIL:
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
John’s area of practice includes the following:
Assisting clients with protecting or preserving family wealth through application of wealth
preservation and asset protection techniques
Federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
Preparation of gift and estate tax returns
Federal income tax planning
Preparation of complex and tax-planned wills and trusts (including insurance trusts, grantor
retained annuity trusts, revocable management trusts, personal residence trusts, gift trusts, and
intentionally defective grantor trusts)
Estate planning for land and mineral interests
Retirement and life insurance planning
Charitable planning
Business succession planning for family owned and/or closely held businesses
Planning for incapacity through the use of appropriate trusts, powers of attorney and advanced
medical directives
Planning with family limited partnerships, limited liability companies and various gift, sale and
loan transactions
Probate, and estate and trust administration
Assisting executors in the administration of decedent’s estates and trustees in the administration
of trusts
Advised U.S. and internationally based clients on matters involving international estate
planning, risk management, and asset protection
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Austin Bar Association, Estate Planning and Probate Section (Board of Directors, 2017 – Present)
Austin Bar Association, Business, Corporate and Tax Section
Austin Young Lawyers Association
Estate Planning Council of Central Texas
State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section
State Bar of Texas Tax Section
AWARDS AND HONORS
Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief, Volume IV
Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal, Staff Editor, Volume III
Austin Monthly’s “Top Attorneys” List 2022
Student Speaker at Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal Seminar(2011)
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Digital Life After Death: The Issue of Planning for a Person’s Digital Assets After Death (Estate
Planning & Community Property Law Journal, Volume III, Book 2, 2011).
Speaker at Third AnnualGDHM Land & Mineral Owner Seminar – Estate Planning with
Mineral Interests: Structures for Managing and Transferring Mineral Interests
Speaker atFourth AnnualGDHM Land & Mineral Owner Seminar – A Land and Mineral
Owner’s Roadmap to the Texas Probate Process
