Living Trusts: Forms and Practice

Dwight F. Bickel has been a practicing attorney since 1957, and is admitted to the bar in Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, and Illinois. For more than 20 years his practice has been concentrated in the area of estate planning. Mr. Bickel is the author of Matthew Bender's Living Trusts: Forms and Practice. He obtained his undergraduate degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Bickel has served as an Assistant Attorney General of Idaho, where one of his principal assignments was as counsel to the Idaho State Tax Commission, and he has been an instructor of business law and economics courses at Boise State University. Currently, Mr. Bickel is semi-retired from full-time law practice and serves as the Chairman of the Board of a legal forms publishing company. He is also actively involved in the development of systems for more effective use of the computer for legal document preparation in small and medium-sized law offices. Mr. Bickel can often be found online, where he serves as a Sysop in the WordPerfect support forum on CompuServe.

Professor Michael T. Flannery joined the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law in 2003 and was named the Judge George Howard, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law in 2010. He served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2014 to 2016, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2018 to 2020. He teaches Family Law, Decedents’ Estates and Trusts, The Prudent Investing of Trusts, The Sexual Exploitation of Children, Animal Law, and Sports Law. He served as a Special Judge for the 20th Judicial District of the State of Arkansas between 2008 and 2011. He also serves as a Legislative Expert Liaison for the Arkansas Bar Association’s Legislative Committee on Family Law. Professor Flannery earned the Faculty Excellence Award for Research in 2017, 2010, and 2006, and earned the Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching in 2012. Professor Flannery also won the 2016 John M. DiPippa Scholarship Award for his case book entitled, "The Sexual Exploitation of Children." He was featured on National Public Radio as an "Agent of Change." He is the author of 17 books, 2 book chapters, 14 law review articles, and 12 expert commentaries. Professor Flannery wrote as an expert commentator for the Trusts and Estates division of Matthew Bender’s LexisNexis Expert Commentaries. While at Catholic University, he was a board member on the Moot Court Association, a staff member on the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, and special features editor for the Judicial Notice newspaper. Upon graduation, he worked as an Assistant City Solicitor in Philadelphia. While with the City Solicitor’s Office, he represented the Department of Human Services in child dependency litigation and the County Office of Mental Health in mental health law litigation. Professor Flannery also worked in the special litigation division, focusing on prison riot litigation. In 1994, he joined the law firm of Gold-Bikin, Clifford and Young as an associate, where he practiced in the area of domestic relations and divorce litigation. He then joined the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen before joining the faculty at the Villanova University School of Law, where he taught for eight years before joining the faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Professor Flannery’s research has been cited by the Alabama Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Iowa, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, the Supreme Court of Michigan, the Supreme Court of Minnesota, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the Supreme Court of Texas, the Colorado Court of Appeals, the First District Court of Appeals of Florida, the Court of Appeals of Georgia, the Appellate Court of Illinois, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, and the Supreme Court of New York. He speaks regularly on various panel symposia and is a member of numerous bar associations and legal organizations.