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 John D. Laflin
Profile:
John D. Laflin, an Albuquerque attorney who specializes in
estate planning and taxation, is listed in the publication of The Best Lawyers in America.
He is the senior member of the law firm of Laflin, Lieuwen, Tucker, Pick & Heer, PA.
Background:
He received his BA, MBA and JD degrees from the University
of Oklahoma and taught on the college level for five years, primarily at the University of
Oklahoma. For eleven years he worked for Regional Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, where
he was a Senior Trial Attorney at the time of his resignation in 1969.
Membership:
In addition to being a member of the New Mexico, Texas and
American Bar Associations, Mr. Laflin is a Certified Public Accountant in the States of
Oklahoma and Texas. He is a member of the New Mexico Society of CPA’s, as well as the
American Institute of CPA’s, and is a Fellow of the American College and Trust and
Estate Counsel. In 1995 he received the Meritorious Service Award given by the New Mexico
Society of CPA’s and Distinguished Bar Service Award given by the New Mexico State
Bar.
Activities:
Mr. Laflin is a frequent lecturer on tax planning and he is
the author of "Estate Planning in New Mexico". He has taught estate planning
courses at the University of New Mexico School of Law and at the UNM Anderson School of
Management, in addition to presenting annual seminars for the New Mexico Bar Foundation
and the New Mexico Society of CPA’s Foundation for Education and Research on estate
planning. He is a New Mexico Board Certified Attorney in Estate Planning, Trusts and
Probate.
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John D. Laflin
6400 Uptown Blvd. NE
Suite 60 West
Albuquerque, NM 87110
 Robert W. Ikard
Robert W. Ikard, B.B.A., J.D., is licensed to
practice law in the State of New Mexico, the United States District Court for the District
of New Mexico and the United States Court of Appeals the Tenth Circuit. He currently
practices law from his offices in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
He received his Bachelor of Business Administration, B.B.A. from St. Edward’s
University with the distinction Magna Cum Laude, his Juris Doctor, J.D. from the
University of Tulsa School of Law, and did graduate work in Taxation at Southern Methodist
University School of Law in the Masters of Law in Taxation Program.
Mr. Ikard is a former Director of Goodwill Industries of Southern New Mexico, Inc., and is
a Member of the American Bar Association Sections of Taxation and Real Property, Probate,
and Trust Law, and Business Law. He is a Member of the State Bar of New Mexico Real
Property, Probate, and Trust Section and the State Bar of New Mexico Section on Taxation.
He is a Member of the El Paso, Texas and Southern New Mexico Chapter of the Society of
Financial Service Professionals, Financial Planning Section.
He formerly served as Vice President of the Dona Ana County Bar Association and currently
serves on the Southern New Mexico Estate Planning Council and the Memorial Medical Center
Foundation Professional Advisory Committee.
He is a frequent speaker at Estate and Financial Planning programs, such as the American
Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and Memorial Medical Center Seminar "Will You
Be Ready to Retire" Program and the "Financial Planning Seminar" Charitable
Giving and Financial Planning Program sponsored by the Diocese of Las Cruces Foundation
and the Retirement and Estate Planning Class.
He has authored numerous articles which have been published on the topics of Estate
Planning and Taxation and currently writes columns for Southwest Senior and Agua Viva
monthly publications on the topics of Taxation and Estate Planning.
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Robert W. Ikard, Attorney at
Law
715 E. Idaho Avenue
Building 2, Suite B
Las Cruces, NM. 88001
 Gerald E. Bischoff
Gerald E. Bischoff is a director and
shareholder in the law firm of Dubois, Cooksey, Bischoff & Ferreri, P.A., in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has been practicing law for twenty-four (24) years.
His law practice emphasizes estate planning, probate, corporate taxation and retirment
plans. Mr. Bischoff received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Gonzaga
University, Spokane, Washington; his Juris Doctor degree from Gonzaga University School of
law; and his Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of denver School of Law.
Mr. Bischoff is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of New Mexico, the
United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court and the United
States Claims Court.
Mr. Bischoff has been speaker at seminars and spoken before professional and civic groups
on the topic of estate planning and living trusts. Mr. Bischoff is a member and past
president of the Albuquerque Downtown Kiwanis Club, and is a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Catholic Foundation, Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
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Dubois, Cooksey, Bischoff
and Ferreri
2040 Fourth St NW
Albuquerque, NM. 87102
 Fletcher R. Catron
Fletcher R. Catron practices law with the firm
of Catron, Catron & Pottow, P.A., in Santa Fe. He is a graduate of Stanford University
and the University of New Mexico School of Law and has been in the general practice of law
since 1973.
Mr. Catron's largest single area of practice is in estate planning, trusts and probate.
He is past chairman of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the State Bar of
New Mexico (1997-98) and is a board member of the Elder Law Section of the State Bar of
New Mexico. He is past president of the Bar Association of the First Judicial District and
the Estate Planning Council of Santa Fe and served as co-chairman of the committee that
obtained adoption by the New Mexico State Legislature of the Uniform Health-Care Decisions
Act and the 1997 amendments to that Act.
Mr. Catron has served as a member of the Probate Forms Committee of the New Mexico Supreme
Court and is a member of other committees reviewing amendments to the New Mexico Probate
Code and other statutes relating to estate planning and trusts. Mr. Catron is a Fellow of
the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and is a member of the State Bar
Association of New Mexico, the American Bar Association, and the Bar Association of the
First Judicial District.
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Catron, Catron & Pottow
PO Box 788
Santa Fe, NM. 87504-0788
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