Harrison LLP

Estate Planning & Trust Administration

Partner

With more than twelve years of experience, Laura focuses her practice on comprehensive estate planning for individuals, families, business owners, and high net worth clients. She crafts highly customized estate plans that thoughtfully address family dynamics, business interests, charitable goals, and long term wealth preservation.

Laura prepares sophisticated wills and trusts for clients, including revocable trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), dynasty trusts with generation skipping transfer tax planning, and a variety of charitable planning vehicles. She advises clients on strategies designed to minimize estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer taxes while ensuring efficient multigenerational wealth transfer.

Laura assists business owners with succession planning and drafts buy sell agreements, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, and partnership agreements tailored to each client’s business objectives. She also counsels clients on probate matters, trust administration, gifting techniques, and evolving federal and state tax laws.

Her approach is collaborative, detail oriented, and client focused, with the goal of delivering clear guidance and long lasting peace of mind.

Iowa State Bar Association, Probate, Trust & Estate Planning Law Section Member

Johnson County Bar Association

Iowa Academy of Trust and Estate Counsel

Cedar Rapids Area Estate Planning Council

University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (Articles Editor, Vol. 13)

University of Iowa, B.A.

New York University, Executive Master of Public Administration