Elder Law

Greg has been a partner at Hurley Toevs Styles Hamblin & Panter PA since 2008. He was formerly a partner of the trust and estate litigation firm of Popejoy & MacKenzie PC. Greg is a graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law and was admitted to practice before the New Mexico courts in 1993 and has been working as a litigation lawyer since that time. Since 1997, Greg has devoted virtually all of his practice to representing clients in probate, estate and trust litigation. This includes representing clients who are contesting or defending the validity of wills, trusts, and other estate planning documents and those who are involved in litigation over the administration of estates and trusts. His cases frequently involve allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and the construction of controlling instruments such as wills and trusts. Greg also frequently handles litigation in contested complex guardianships and conservatorships. He has served as guardian ad litem for incapacitated adults involved in those types of proceedings. Greg has received his certificate (2005) from the UNM School of Law mediation course and has served as a mediator in cases involving contested trusts, probates, and difficult guardianships and conservatorships. Greg is the chair of the Trust and Estate Division of the Real Property and Trust Section of the New Mexico State Bar and the Chair-Elect of that Section for the 2018 year. Greg has been recognized as AV-Rated by Martindale and was elected a fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel in 2010. He is an active member of the Fiduciary Litigation Committee of that College. Greg has been recognized as Best Lawyer of the Year (2017, 2018, and 2019) by Best Lawyers.

Spencer Peck is the founder and principal attorney at Peck Law Corporation. He has settled millions for his clients in personal injury and elder abuse matters. As an attorney, Mr. Peck has been known to fiercely litigate against insurance companies holding parties responsible until justice is served for his clients. Although Spencer’s practice focuses on personal injury and elder abuse matters, Mr. Peck has extensive experience with criminal law, medical malpractice, and wrongful death matters.

Russel Morgan is a practicing lawyer in the state of New York.

Jay Marsden has been an elder law attorney in Massachusetts since 2002. In addition to his experience as an estate planning and elder law attorney, Jay spent over 16 years working as an investment advisor at Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he managed over 700 High Net Worth client relationships as part of their Private Client Group, providing both investment, retirement, and estate planning advice. He is married and the proud father of two daughters.

Kerri Castellini is a lawyer in of Washington D.C. who focuses on trusts and estates. She has also tried cases involving guardianship, power of attorney, trusts, wills, and more. She is also barred in Maryland and Virginia.

Ms. Dean's professional experience encompasses a broad range of legal matters. Her primary emphases are estate planning, elder law, and probate. Her estate planning practice involves helping clients orchestrate their estates by drafting a vast array of trusts, wills and powers of attorney. Ms. Dean also provides compassionate legal advice while assisting families through the probate process. Ms. Dean's legal expertise in civil appeals includes both advising at the trial court level and handling all aspects of the appeal. She has handled appeals dealing with complex insurance matters, business matters, personal injury and family law appeals. She has successfully argued in federal and state courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, on behalf of a major insurance company, corporations, and individuals. She works with trial attorneys and clients to preserve error on the trial court level, preparing legal motions, handling mandamus actions, preparing and arguing the jury charge and handling all post-judgment motions. At the appellate level, Ms. Dean leads the appeal of a judgment, including preparing briefs, petitions for review and briefs on the merits to the Texas Supreme Court, and presenting oral argument before diverse panels of judges. Throughout her career, Ms. Dean has handled other civil matters as well, such as complex commercial litigation, corporate buy-outs, employment and business contracts, consumer issues, family law litigation, adoptions, real estate transactions and personal injury litigation. She successfully negotiated and closed a multi-million dollar buy-out of a snowboard clothing company to a major sporting goods conglomerate. Prior to specializing in appellate law, Ms. Dean engaged in a successful trial practice and as a result, understands the needs of trial attorneys and what it takes to make them successful at the trial level and on appeal. Integrity and operating under a high standard of ethics are of utmost importance to us at The Dean Law Firm. We abide by the Texas Lawyer's Creed.

Douglas L. Price, Esquire has been practicing law for 31 years. Born and raised in Pittsburgh and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts and the West Virginia University College of Law in 1990. Mr. Price started his law career at a general practice law firm where he learned aspects of all types of law from business law to criminal law, family law, bankruptcy, wills and estates and litigation. After several years, Mr. Price returned to Pittsburgh, practicing insurance defense and insurance coverage litigation. Over the next several years, Mr. Price tried many cases to verdict, and was invited to become a member of the prestigious Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, a group of the top 250 trial lawyers in Allegheny County. Mr. Price has tried cases throughout Western Pennsylvania, in both Pennsylvania courts and Federal Courts. In 2018, Mr. Price obtained one of the largest verdicts in Washington County, Pennsylvania when a jury awarded his client $4,242,573 because of a missed diagnosis of kidney failure which required a kidney transplant and lifelong difficulties. In addition to trial work, Mr. Price began to work with the elderly on legal issues surrounding estate planning and elder law issues. Mr. Price practice continues to center on litigation claims but business issues, estates and elder law have become more prominent. Mr. Price is a member of the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and California (inactive) Bar Associations, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and Northern District of West Virginia. In addition to trial work, Mr. Price has brief and argued appeals before Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts, as well as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Richard Neuworth has been handling personal injury and employment and employee benefit litigation for 35 years. He has extensive experience in employee benefit, discrimination, harassment, personal injury, workers compensation and Social Security disability cases, successfully representing individuals and groups of employees in significant employment disputes. An “AV Preeminent-Rated” attorney, he is listed in “Best Lawyers in America” in Labor and Employment Law in 2010. He is listed in “Super Lawyers,” as well, in Employee Benefits. A graduate of the George Washington University and the University of Baltimore Law School, Richard is general counsel to employee organizations and associations. He is a member of the American Bar Association – Labor and Employment Section, Maryland State Bar Association Labor and Employment Section – Section Council since 2006, Maryland State Bar Association – Elder Law Council in 2010, Maryland Association of Justice, Baltimore City Bar Association and National Employment Lawyers Association. He has been the editor in chief of the “Trial Reporter” of the Maryland Association for Justice since 2006. Richard has presented on the subject of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and Americans for Disabilities Act of 1990 to the Maryland State Bar Association Convention in June 2006 and June 2010. He moderated a program on the new Maryland False Claims Act and federal False Claims Act in June 2015. He presented on both the Maryland False Claims Act and federal False Claims Act in April 2015 for Employment Law Institute. Richard has lectured on disability benefits and employment issues to diverse groups such as the National MS Society, Alzheimer’s Association, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Lupus Foundation. He has also lectured on the subject of Social Security disability and Maryland Workers Compensation law to those groups, the National Business Institute and the Maryland State Bar Association in September 2010. He has been an adjunct lecturer on both employment law and Social Security disability as part of the Elder Law course at the University of Maryland Law School from 2005 to the present. Richard’s publications include course materials sponsored by the Maryland Institute of Continuing Professional Legal Education for Lawyers (MICPEL) on the subjects of Employment Law and Social Security Disability. His materials on ERISA and Medicare liens were also part of programs sponsored by the Maryland Association of Justice. He has published articles in the Maryland State Bar Association, “Trial Magazine” and the “Trial Reporter’ of the Maryland Association of Justice on topics that include the Medicare Secondary Payer Act and the Private Cause of Action, Employee Termination under the False Claims Act, ERISA Liens and Personal Injury Actions, Medicare, Medicare Secondary Payer Act and Private Cause of Actions, Sexual Harassment, ERISA and Personal Injury Actions.

Marcella A. Taylor found herself drawn to the legal field directly out of high school, working as a paralegal. She then pursued a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. She obtained her LL.M in Elder Law from Stetson Law School.

Gregory C. Larson has been in the practice of law in Bismarck, North Dakota for 37 years, and is a partner of the Larson Latham Huettl Law Firm. His primary areas of practice are tax, probate, business planning, estate planning, nursing home planning, and elder law. He received his B.S. degree from the University of North Dakota, his J.D. degree from Gonzaga University, and his Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from the University of Miami. Greg is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of North Dakota, United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court. Greg is a member of the American Bar Association (Member, Taxation Section), State Bar Association of North Dakota (Member, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Probate and Trust Law Committee), Western Dakota Estate Planning Council (President, 1983-84, Member, Board of Directors, 1982-2000), Christian Legal Society (Member and State Director), National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (Member and State Director).