WealthCounsel credits competence of, collaboration among, its member firms. WealthCounsel, a Madison, Wisc.-based community of estate-planning attorneys, has crossed the 1,000-mark in the number of law firm members enrolled in the organization.

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"It is truly exciting to witness our growth over the years and to recognize that the value we deliver to estate-planning attorneys throughout the country continues to make a meaningful difference in their practices and in their lives," says WealthCounsel's executive director Laura Wilson. "As we enter 2008, we do so with great optimism that our message will resonate with other practitioners [whom] we hope will take advantage of the resources we can offer them in building their practices."

WealthCounsel provides a document drafting system, a collaborative network of practitioners in every U.S. state, continuing legal education, practice-building tools and resources backed by and customer service and tech support.

"Membership in WealthCounsel represents a commitment to a client-centric approach to estate planning founded on the principles of competence, collaboration, and a meaningful sense of professional community," says Lewis Dymond, a WealthCounsel principal, former CEO, and lead programmer of its WealthDocs estate-planning software. Its collaborative nature, Dymond adds, "is not only the essence of our philosophy of collegiality, but also the foundation for the continuous improvement of our document drafting system." -FWR

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