Brittany P Stephen
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Overview
Brittany’s practice focuses on corporate law, including unclaimed property law and advertising and marketing law, and trust and estate planning, including trust and probate estate administration and litigation. Brittany is committed to helping individuals and businesses to achieve their goals by providing each client with tailored advice and representation to meet their needs.
As part of Brittany’s corporate practice, she often serves as outside counsel to privately held companies. Her experience includes assisting businesses with general planning, including regulatory compliance, entity formation, mergers, acquisitions, contract formation and negotiation, and succession planning.
Brittany also serves as outside counsel to privately and publicly held companies regarding their unclaimed property, marketing, and advertising. Brittany’s unclaimed property practice includes advising clients on how to comply with the unique landscape of unclaimed property laws. Brittany’s advertising and marketing practice includes ensuring companies comply with the ever-changing advertising, marketing, and privacy regulations impacting companies who interact with consumers.
As part of Brittany’s trust and estate practice, she guides clients through the process of establishing and updating their estate plan, helping with disputes between fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and family members, and guiding families through the probate, estate and trust administration process.
In addition to her legal practice, Brittany is also highly involved in the legal community, serving as the Chair of the Columbus Bar Association Estate Planning and Trust Committee and on the Scholarship Committee for the Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization.
Credentials
Education
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D., 2014)
The Ohio State University (B.S.B.A. in Business – Finance, 2011)
Bar Admissions
Ohio
Florida
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
Professional Highlights
Noteworthy Experience
Brittany’s business law practice often consists of assisting small and large businesses with general business counseling, regulatory compliance issues, contract drafting and negotiation, business formation, dispute resolution, business litigation, and business succession planning. In the retail context, Brittany assists clients with advertising, marketing, privacy law compliance, developing prepaid card programs, and developing and structuring various types of promotions, including sales, coupons, rebates, sweepstakes, and contest campaigns.
Brittany’s unclaimed property practice involves assisting clients with unclaimed property compliance, the negotiation and resolution of voluntary disclosure agreements and audit defense, and unclaimed property litigation.
Brittany’s trust and estate planning practice includes working with clients to prepare wills, trusts (revocable and irrevocable), powers of attorney, and living wills tailored to their specific needs. This practice also includes preparation of trust amendments or terminations, private settlement agreements, dispute resolution, beneficiary representation, trustee representation, and petitions with the probate court when necessary.
Brittany’s probate practice includes administering probate estates and trusts and representing executors, trustees and beneficiaries.
Brittany also provides general legal counsel to individuals and businesses regarding an array of legal needs.
Affiliations and Civic Involvement
Member, Ohio State Bar Association
Member, Columbus Bar Association
Member, Florida Bar Association
Member, Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization
Graduate, Columbus Bar Association’s 2021 Barrister Leadership Program
Chair, Columbus Bar Association Estate Planning and Trust Committee
Brittany’s practice focuses on corporate law, including unclaimed property law and advertising and marketing law, and trust and estate planning, including trust and probate estate administration and litigation. Brittany is committed to helping individuals and businesses to achieve their goals by providing each client with tailored advice and representation to meet their needs.
As part of Brittany’s corporate practice, she often serves as outside counsel to privately held companies. Her experience includes assisting businesses with general planning, including regulatory compliance, entity formation, mergers, acquisitions, contract formation and negotiation, and succession planning.
Brittany also serves as outside counsel to privately and publicly held companies regarding their unclaimed property, marketing, and advertising. Brittany’s unclaimed property practice includes advising clients on how to comply with the unique landscape of unclaimed property laws. Brittany’s advertising and marketing practice includes ensuring companies comply with the ever-changing advertising, marketing, and privacy regulations impacting companies who interact with consumers.
As part of Brittany’s trust and estate practice, she guides clients through the process of establishing and updating their estate plan, helping with disputes between fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and family members, and guiding families through the probate, estate and trust administration process.
In addition to her legal practice, Brittany is also highly involved in the legal community, serving as the Chair of the Columbus Bar Association Estate Planning and Trust Committee and on the Scholarship Committee for the Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization.
Education
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D., 2014)
The Ohio State University (B.S.B.A. in Business – Finance, 2011)
Bar Admissions
Ohio
Florida
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
Noteworthy Experience
Brittany’s business law practice often consists of assisting small and large businesses with general business counseling, regulatory compliance issues, contract drafting and negotiation, business formation, dispute resolution, business litigation, and business succession planning. In the retail context, Brittany assists clients with advertising, marketing, privacy law compliance, developing prepaid card programs, and developing and structuring various types of promotions, including sales, coupons, rebates, sweepstakes, and contest campaigns.
Brittany’s unclaimed property practice involves assisting clients with unclaimed property compliance, the negotiation and resolution of voluntary disclosure agreements and audit defense, and unclaimed property litigation.
Brittany’s trust and estate planning practice includes working with clients to prepare wills, trusts (revocable and irrevocable), powers of attorney, and living wills tailored to their specific needs. This practice also includes preparation of trust amendments or terminations, private settlement agreements, dispute resolution, beneficiary representation, trustee representation, and petitions with the probate court when necessary.
Brittany’s probate practice includes administering probate estates and trusts and representing executors, trustees and beneficiaries.
Brittany also provides general legal counsel to individuals and businesses regarding an array of legal needs.
Affiliations and Civic Involvement
Member, Ohio State Bar Association
Member, Columbus Bar Association
Member, Florida Bar Association
Member, Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization
Graduate, Columbus Bar Association’s 2021 Barrister Leadership Program
Chair, Columbus Bar Association Estate Planning and Trust Committee
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