$ 50-275 per hour
N Vail Gardner
also known as Vail Gardner
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Biography
Vail Gardner Law PLLC is a woman-owned Durham law firm dedicated to providing expert estate planning services to families and individuals. A personalized estate plan provides a mission and vision for your family’s future. Planning ahead is a gift of love to the people you love the most.
Vail is passionate about helping families create personalized estate plans, and protecting those they love the most. After practicing for nearly 20 years, she established Vail Gardner Law to work with families and individuals to provide the much needed stability and peace of mind that comes from knowing an estate is in order. Her relationships with her clients are based on trust and open communication. Every client is important, and all deserve both empathy and expert advice.
Vail is dedicated to client service. All of us juggle priorities to make our busy lives work. Vail make it easy for her clients to get their affairs in order. She will meet with you in your office or home, and she offers evening and weekend appointments.
Vail finds meaningful ways to share her skills and passion with her community. She volunteers her time to Wills for Heroes, which provides no-cost estate planning documents to first responders and their families. She also works with law students to provide Living Wills to cancer patients through the Duke Law School Cancer Pro Bono Legal Project.
Vail is an active member of a variety of associations, including the North Carolina and Florida State Bars, North Carolina Bar Association Estate and Trust Section, 14th Judicial District Bar, Durham County Bar Association, and Durham-Orange Women Attorneys.
Vail is licensed in North Carolina and Florida.
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Licensed in North Carolina for 20 years
State: North Carolina
Acquired: 2006
No misconduct found
Licensed in Florida for 27 years
State: Florida
Acquired: 1998
No misconduct found
Location
Vail Gardner Law PLLC
732 9th St Ste 621, Durham, NC, 27705-4803
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Posted by Dana | July 27, 2019 | Probate
Death of a loved one
Recently Vail helped us navigate through the will and estate of our loved on who recently passed. She took the time to answer all of our questions with patience and love. She made us feel heard and gave us all the information we needed to understand what the will stated in terms we could process. Sh...
Posted by Jim | March 31, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning
A great attorney who helps you achieve peace of mind
Vail is incredibly knowledgeable, helpful, and meticulous. She's also great fun to work with. She answered all of our questions, and made the estate planning process easy. We are so grateful to have worked with Vail--and so relieved to know that we have put in place plans that will help our family in...
Posted by Katie | January 29, 2019
Great advice
Vail took time to walk me through her process and hear my current situation and needs. She will come to clients for meetings and offered great flexibility, which I value greatly.
Posted by anonymous | November 13, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning
Excellent Estate Planning
Vail was a real pleasure to work with. Vail has a real gift for translating legal concepts into layman's terms. Vail was quick and efficient while also taking the time necessary to ensure we produced an estate plan tailored according to our needs and desires. I recommend Vail without reservation.
Posted by anonymous | November 01, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning
Highly recommend
Vail was exactly the person I needed to help sort out my estate. She asked difficult questions, good questions, asked one way and then another, all to be sure we were on the same page and that I understood where we were going. I highly recommend her.
N Gardner
Replied last November 01, 2018Thank you for your review and recommendation. I love working with clients and helping them plan for and protect their families. I'm glad I was helpful.
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Experience
Honors
2002
William G. Zimmerman Award for outstanding pro bono contribution, Shook, Hardy and Bacon, LLP
1995
Chester H. Ferguson Scholarship, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Work Experience
2017 - Present
Owner, Vail Gardner Law, PLLC
2013 - 2016
Adjust Instructor, Wake Tech Community College
2006 - 2012
Pro Se Law Clerk, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of NC
Associations
2016 - Present
North Carolina Bar Association, Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Division
2016 - Present
North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys (Durham/Orange chapter)
2012 - Present
14th Judicial District Bar Association
2006 - Present
North Carolina State Bar
1998 - Present
Florida Bar
Education
1997
University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law
Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor
1993
University of Florida
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Languages
English
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Q&A
Will a copy of a will be sufficient for probate if the original was ruined in a flood?
01 Apr 2019
Q&A
IN North Carolina, If an ambulance bill comes after the settlement of the estate, am I responsible for the payment?
29 Oct 2018