Robert Darl Malin

I concentrate my practice in the areas of probate, elder law and tax and estate planning.  My primary area of practice is in the drafting and implementation of estate plans ranging from drafting simple Wills and counseling clients on how assets pass at death to drafting, funding and implementing complex Trusts for estate and gift tax reduction  

I am a candidate for my LL.M. in Tax at the University of Florida which I expect to complete in the Spring of 2025. I am one of 26 attorneys in Tennessee certified as a specialist in Estate Planning Law (as of January, 2024).

I am the Chair of the Trust Committee and Vice-Chair for the Trust Legislative Committee for the Tennessee Bankers Association. The Trust Legislative Committee is responsible for modernizing Tennessee's Trust laws.

I am a member of the Executive Committee for the Estate Planning and Probate Section of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Trust and Trust Legislative Committees for the Tennessee Bankers' Association and the Estate Planning Council of Middle Tennessee.

As an Attorney, I was honored with the rating of AV Preeminent® by my peers on Martindale-Hubbell. This is the highest peer rating standard. This rating signifies that a large number of my lawyer peers ranked me at the highest level of professional excellence for my legal knowledge, communication skills and ethical standards.

I graduated tenth in my class, magna cum laude, from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. During law school, I served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert S. Benham, of the Probate Court of Shelby County.

Prior to moving to Murfreesboro, I was a partner with the law firm Williams McDaniel, PLLC, a boutique estate planning and trust administration law firm in Memphis, Tennessee. I have served by appointment of the Shelby County Probate Court as Successor Trustee, Guardian ad Litem and Attorney ad Litem in complicated Conservatorship cases and as an Administrator in a contested probate administration. I have also substituted as professor for a Trust Law class at the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphrey’s School of Law.