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Diedre Wachbrit Braverman is the Managing Partner of Braverman Law Group in Boulder, Colorado. She works with high-net-worth individuals and families on asset protection and estate tax planning around concentrated and sudden wealth: equity compensation and pre- and post-IPO positions, large inheritances received outright or in trust, and portfolios built in real estate, public markets, and private companies. She is licensed in Colorado, California, and Wyoming, and much of her work is multi-state. She works alongside her clients' existing financial advisors, CPAs, and trustees rather than in place of them.

Her practice covers asset protection planning, including domestic asset protection trusts, spousal lifetime access trusts, and Wyoming close LLCs, along with revocable and irrevocable trusts, directed trusts, and situs and decanting questions. On the tax side she plans for estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer, and capital gains consequences together rather than in sequence.

She also maintains a national special needs practice. She co-founded the Academy of Special Needs Planners, a national organization of attorneys who include special needs planning in their practices, and has served as an expert witness in special needs trust and Medicaid eligibility litigation.

Before practicing law, Diedre spent three years as a Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company, advising some of the country's largest companies. That training still shapes how she plans: the tax and the downside get modeled before anything is drafted. Earlier she practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell and at Kirkland & Ellis.

Diedre is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where she was Chair of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Irvine, magna cum laude, first in her class of more than 800 students. She is admitted in Colorado, Wyoming, and California.

She served as Chair of the Tax & Estate Section of the Boulder County Bar Association from 2023 to 2026, and is a member of WealthCounsel.

Diedre has been quoted in Time magazine, The New York Times, and repeatedly in The Wall Street Journal. She co-authored Special Needs Trusts: Planning, Drafting, and Administration, published by Continuing Education of the Bar in California and referenced as a resource nationwide, and has written for Apartment Finance Today. Her current client book is The Estate and Asset Protection Playbook, available as a PDF on request from her office or through the firm's website. It supersedes her earlier guides: The Family Asset Protection Guide and The Parents' Guide to Protecting Great Kids.

She teaches continuing legal education on special needs trusts, spousal lifetime access trusts, and trust protector provisions, and has taught multi-day intensives to WealthCounsel member attorneys nationally.

I spent three years at McKinsey & Company before practicing law. That training still shapes the work: we model the tax and the downside first. Asset protection, estate tax planning, and special needs trusts for individuals and families whose wealth arrived through equity, inheritance, or investing.

Estate planning for families whose wealth is concentrated - in company equity, in real estate, in a portfolio, or in a trust someone else created. We plan for the tax and the transfer together, across Colorado, California, and Wyoming.

I spent three years at McKinsey & Company before practicing law. That training still shapes the work: we model the tax and the downside first. Asset protection, estate tax planning, and special needs trusts for individuals and families whose wealth arrived through equity, inheritance, or investing.

Special needs planning is a national part of our practice. We draft first- and third-party special needs trusts that protect a vulnerable beneficiary's government benefits, advise trustees administering them, and have served as an expert witness in special needs and Medicaid litigation.

We use limited liability companies, including Wyoming close LLCs, to hold rental and investment real estate and interests in private companies. Structured properly they put distance between your assets and a future creditor, and they simplify what passes to the next generation.

Estate tax, gift tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, and capital gains, usually all four at once. We plan around liquidity events and concentrated positions, and we work alongside the CPA you already use rather than replacing them.

Practice Areas

Trusts 50%

*Asset protection to protect you and your beneficiaries from divorce and lawsuits *Trusts as a less-confrontational alternative to prenups & postnups

26 years | 1,700 cases

50%

Tax 20%

Estate and Gift tax planning, Generation-Skipping-Transfer-Tax planning. Capital Gains Tax planning. Often, all four together.

26 years | 1,200 cases

20%

Elder Law 10%

Special needs trusts protect vulnuerable and disabled beneficiaries from third-parties and from losing essential government benefits and services.

26 years | 1,000 cases

10%

Estate Planning 10%

Discussion and exploration of your goals, concerns, and finances to create a plan that best achieves what you want, effectively and efficiently. We use wills, trusts, LLCs, and other tools to ensure our clients sign plans that work for them.

26 years | 1,900 cases

10%

Limited Liability Company (LLC) 10%

Many of our clients hold rental and investment real estate and interests in private companies. We protect them with LLCs. We also use certain out-of-state LLCs to create asset protection without the interference of an out-of-state trustee.

26 years | 800 cases

10%

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Licenses

Licensed in Wyoming for 1 year

State: Wyoming

Acquired: 2025

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Licensed in Colorado for 16 years

State: Colorado

Acquired: 2010

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No misconduct found

Licensed in California for 28 years

State: California

Acquired: 1997

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Braverman Law Group, LLC

(303) 479-8408

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507 Canyon Blvd., Suite 203, Boulder, CO, 80302

braverman-law.com/

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Diedre Wachbrit Braverman's Reviews

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4.7 /5.0

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Posted by Jessica | April 12, 2024 | Hired Attorney

Highly knowledgeable and professional

Working with the Braverman group for our family’s estate planning has been a very pleasant and easy experience for my husband and me. From the beginning of the process we were put at ease, and every question we’ve had has been answered fully and promptly to our satisfaction. Everyone we have come in ...contact with has been kind, knowledgeable and highly professional. We will continue to seek legal services from Braverman for any need that may arise in the future.