This work is summarized in four broad categories:

• Estate Planning.
  Preparing standard estate planning documents for a broad range of clients, including Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives and Revocable Living Trusts. Providing comprehensive wealth and estate tax planning, including the use of tax-saving trusts, limited liability companies and charitable organizations.
• Estate Administration.
  Assisting those tasked with administering the estates of loved ones. Estate administration in Washington State includes court-supervised and non-intervention probate, as well as non-probate administration, including under Revocable Living Trusts.
• Estate and Trust Disputes.
  Estate and trust administration frequently gives rise to disputes between and among fiduciaries and beneficiaries. Lance has a wealth of experience in negotiating and litigating all varieties of estate and trust disputes, including will contests, complaints against trustees and personal representatives, and contested guardianship proceedings. Lance is a frequent lecturer to other lawyers regarding Washington State’s unique Trust and Estate Dispute Resolution Act (TEDRA) and serves as Chair of the State Bar’s Trust and Estate Litigation Subcommittee. Lance has represented a wide variety of clients, including Jimi Hendrix’s brother, Leon (you may read a brief summary of this case in the Seattle P-I or Forbes Magazine). More recently, Lance represented Greenpeace in a case that garnered national attention related to a disputed bequest left to Greenpeace.
• Fiduciary Representation.
  Lance serves as counsel to professional and private trustees and Personal Representatives, both in an advisory capacity, and also in defense of fiduciary claims. 

Professional and Community Activities  

• Former and Founding Chairman, Washington State Bar Association, Estate and Trust Litigation Subcommittee
• Washington State Bar Association, Real Property, Probate & Trust Section, Legislative Committee
• Author, Washington Probate Deskbook, “Fiduciary Duties”
• Author, The Codicil 2009 Spring Edition, “Palmer v. World Gospel Mission – A case of Mistaken Identity?”

Representative Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, Women in Film: Financial Roundtable (2009)
• Speaker, Washington State Bar Association: The Sixth Annual Trust and Estate Litigation Seminar: Annual Case Law and Legislative Update (2009)
• Speaker, Washington State Bar Association: Probate Bootcamp, TEDRA (2008)
• Speaker, Washington State Bar Association: The Fifth Annual Trust and Estate Litigation Seminar: Jurisdiction and Procedure Under TEDRA (2008)
• Speaker, Washington Bankers Association: 2007 Northwest Trust Conference, Tension Between Litigators and Estate Planners (2007)
• Speaker, Washington State Bar Association:4th Annual Trust and Estate Litigation Seminar  Update (2007)
• Speaker, Washington State Bar Association: Essentials of Elder Law: TEDRA and How To Protect Your Elder Clients (2007)

Articles    

• Author, Washington Probate Deskbook, “Fiduciary Duties” (2009)
• Estates and Trusts, Spring Newsletter (2009)
• Recommended Estate Planning Techniques (2003)

Honors and Awards

• Rated 10/10 on Avvo.com
• Martindale Hubbell AV® Preeminent 4.7 out of 5
• Washington Law & Politics' Rising Star®, (2008-present)

Background

Lance was born in British Columbia and raised in a small prairie town in Alberta, Canada. He was a member of  the firm of Rosedale, Losey & Burnett, PLLC in Issaquah, before joining Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland in 2000.

Lance Has Four Good Reasons to Stay in Shape

Lance and his wife have four young children that occupy most of his time outside of the office. Nonetheless, Lance has a weakness for Texas Hold-Em and sports of almost any variety. Like the fresh fish menu at McCormicks, Lance's recreational league of choice changes from season-to-season—or at least it used to. Recently, Lance has taken up his childhood dream to become an NHL ice hockey star. If anyone knows of a professional hockey team looking for a past-his-prime, painfully slow, weak-skating center, please let Lance know. In the meantime, he'll be waiting for scouts to discover him in the lower divisions of the GSHL (www.gshockey.com).