i cannot remember anything about wills and trusts from law school or the bar exam, except that it was a complex and vexing subject which you had to know a surprising amount of detail about to pass the damn test but which i promptly forgot shortly after. It came up in practice a few years later at a large firm and i chokingly relearned some –then purged it entirely from brain…
I would be nervous about doing my own complex estate planning in trust documents. i guess the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know much. i’m not trying to justify high lawyer fees or drum up business for them, just saying…i wouldn’t trust me with a trust, and theoretically I’m licensed to do it.
