Douglas K. Freeman is senior partner with Freeman, Freeman & Smiley in Irvine, CA. Freeman was a founding board member of the National Committee on Planned Giving. He speaks and writes extensively on both estate and charitable planning topics and has spoken at such conferences as NCPG, CASE, NSFRE, and AHP among others. Freeman received his AB from Stanford University, JD from UCLA and LL.M. in Taxation from the University of San Diego.

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