Kirby Sevier

Practice Areas

Estate, Trust & Business Planning

Fiduciary Advisory Services

Career

One of the Firm's founding Shareholders, Kirby is a member of the Estate, Trust & Business Planning Group. He is also a former member of the Firm's Executive Committee.

Kirby has practiced in the area of wills, estates, and trusts for over 40 years. He regularly represents individuals in the estate planning process, as well as individual and corporate fiduciaries in the area of estate and trust administration. His estate planning practice is geared toward assisting clients with the stewardship of their wealth and includes sophisticated will and trust drafting; income, estate and gift tax planning; charitable planning; insurance and employee benefit planning; and a variety of wealth transfer techniques. Kirby's estate administration practice is designed to help clients fulfill their testamentary and tax objectives while strengthening family relationships. He regularly advises individual and corporate fiduciaries and has been a principal outside counsel for the Personal Trust Department of Regions Bank and other institutional trustees.

Kirby's skills and talents have earned him numerous accolades, the most recent of which is the prestigious Band 1 ranking by Chambers and Partners in the area of "Private Wealth Law." He has served as the Firm's Hiring Attorney since its inception and has had a hand in hiring almost all of the firm's Birmingham lawyers. Two of Kirby's most memorable professional moments have been (1) in 2003, when his colleagues recognized his efforts in building the firm by naming a room for him at Vanderbilt Law School, and (2) in 2019, when he was given the firm's inaugural "Founding Principles Award."

Professional Memberships

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Estate Planning Council of Birmingham, former Director

National Association of Estate Planners

Education