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About the Author

Mr. Keating is a sole practitioner whose offices are located in Centreville, Maryland, U.S.A. His ancestors have practiced law there for nearly 150 years. He was educated at St. Andrews' School, Princeton University, and the University of Maryland School of Law.

He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1970 and has been continuously engaged in the private practice of law from 1971 until the present.

Mr. Keating served for three years in the United States Army, assigned to the Intelligence Corps and working largely in Washington, D.C. After his stint in the military, he spent six years or so in the trust division of a large commercial bank, working in the fields of estate planning and estate and trust administration, and then entered the practice of law.

During his first eight years in private practice, he was a member of a small firm in Easton, Maryland, but has worked as a sole practitioner in Easton and Centreville since 1979.

He has served as chairman of the Estate and Trust Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, and has spoken to numerous lay and professional audiences on the subject of estate planning and estate administration. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and of the Maryland Bar Foundation.

Mr. Keating's clientele comes largely from the five counties of Maryland's upper Eastern Shore, and is mostly composed of well-to-do individuals and owners of closely held businesses. His work is heavily concentrated in the areas of estate planning, estate administration, business succession planning, business valuation, and tax matters related thereto. He does not do any litigation but has been engaged as an expert witness in cases involving estate planning and estate administration.

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