Bill Wood's Profile

Profile of Bill Wood

Admitted to Practice: Florida - Admitted - 1979; South Carolina - Admitted - 1972; District of Columbia - Admitted - 1973, Certified Mediator, SC - 2006

In Charlotte

In Miami

5345 Wilgrove-Mint Hill Rd.,
Charlotte, North Carolina 28227-3467

Charlotte (704) 545-0044;
Charlotte, Fax (704) 644-5576

Suite 3580, One Biscayne Tower
Miami, Florida 33131

Miami (305) 374-4441;
WATS 1-888-374-4441;
Miami, Fax (305) 372-8544

Email Addresses: wmw@lawmiami.com or wmwood@scbar.org

Education: Advanced Law Degree: L.L.M. (Estate Planning) 1980, University of Miami, School of Law, J.D., cum laude 1972; University of South Carolina, School of Law; B.S. Accounting 1964, University of South Carolina.

Tax Law Clerk, Chief Judge Wilson Cowen, United States Court of Claims, now U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Dade County Industrial Development Authority, 1990-1994.
Florida Editor and computer Beta Tester for software version, Drafting Wills and Trust Agreements, A Systems Approach, Wilkins, Shepards/McGraw-Hill; Beta Tester: Fidelity Investments, 1989.Fox 2.1 for DOS; 1999 Fidelity Investment Active Trader for Windows; 1998 Tax Analysts and Advocates, One Disk Pro; 2001, Fedex Ship Manager.
1980 - 1985, associate then Capital Partner: 1984-85: Estate Planning and Tax Depts., Shutts & Bowen, Miami, Florida; primary emphasis included estate and tax planning, probate, and tax litigation.
1985 - Present, interstate practice in Florida and South Carolina, Law offices of William McB. Wood.
2006 - Certified Mediator, South Carolina Circuit Courts

Faculty member

Drafting Wills and Trust Agreements in North Carolina, National Business Institute, September, 2002

Probate in North Carolina, National Business Institute, 2001

Northeast Regional, National Institute of Trial Advocacy (N.I.T.A.) at Hofstra Law School, 1979, 1983 - 1985, 1987 - 1991, 1995--1997.
Florida Regional (N.I.T.A.) at Nova Law School, 1989.
Member Teaching Team: Intensive Trial Techniques, Emory Law School, Atlanta, May, 1982.
Fifth Intensive Trial Techniques Course at Hofstra Law School, Hempstead, New York, January, 1982.

Included in 49 thru current 60th Edition of Who's Who in America. Currently Listed: Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in Finance & Industry; Who's Who in the World.

Previous Representative Clients include:

Northern Trust of Florida, N.A., Miami
Bank of America (Trust) Miami,
First Union National Bank (now Wachovia, N.A.) (Capital Management Group), Miami,
Accurazioni Generali,

Personal

Married: Jeanette Dobson Wood, graduate organist.
Children: Walter, 1999 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, 2004 Graduate of Duke University Law School, and Lewis, 2003 Graduate of University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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