EDWARD D. AHRENS
eahrens@ahrenslaw.com
Partner - Seattle/Boise Offices

Current
Partner with Ahrens & DeAngeli, serving clients nationwide.

Experience
Prior to joining Ahrens & DeAngeli, Ed was a Partner with Arthur Andersen LLP and a member of its national family wealth planning specialty team. Ed joined Arthur Andersen in 1990. During the past 35 years he has served clients both in the Pacific Northwest and nationally with estate planning matters.

Honors and Memberships

  • The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White) - Selected in field of "Trusts and Estates" in the 1989/1990 edition

  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (formerly The American College of Probate Counsel) – elected as a fellow in 1987

  • Idaho Law Review (1970 - 1971)

  • Tax Law Section, Idaho State Bar Association

  • Southwest Idaho Estate Planning Council (Past President)

Professional and Civic

  • Past Member of Family Wealth Planning National Specialty Team for Arthur Andersen LLP

  • Past Director of Family Wealth Planning for the Pacific Northwest Office for Arthur Andersen LLP

  • Member of Virginia Mason Hospital Foundation

    • Director and Treasurer

    • Member of Advisory Board

  • Member of Seattle Art Museum Advisory Board

  • Co-Trustee, The Penny Foundation

  • Charitable Committee, The Schindel Foundation

  • Member, Idaho Community Foundation

  • University of Idaho College of Law Advisory Board

    • Chairman, Dean's Economic Committee

Bar Admissions

  • United States Tax Court

  • Idaho State Bar

  • Washington State Bar

  • Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

  • United States District Court for the District of Idaho

Publications

  • Idaho Estate Planning Forms, Idaho Law Foundation, 1981, as one of four co‑authors

  • Idaho Estate Planning Deskbook, Idaho Law Foundation, 1983, approximately 600 page treatise; edited chapters submitted by other co-authors and acted as primary editor

Education

  • Juris Doctorate, University of Idaho (1971)

  • B.A. Economics, University of Idaho (1968)

Seminar Presentations
Following is a representative list of organizations and tax seminars at which Ed has been a speaker:

  • Idaho Bar Association

  • Montana Bar Association

  • Idaho State Bar Association Advanced Estate Planning Workshop (1981-1995)

  • 21st Annual Estate Planning Seminar, Portland, Oregon

  • Seattle Estate Planning Council, Seattle, Washington

  • East King County Estate Planning Council, Seattle, Washington

  • Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants

  • Idaho State Tax Institute

  • Boise Bar Association

  • Washington Certified Public Accountants Society

  • North Dakota Society of Certified Public Accountants

  • Annual Boise C.L.U. Symposium

  • Magic Valley Estate Planning Seminar (1986-1992)

  • American Society of Women Accountants

  • Ore-Idaho Association of Life Underwriters

  • Boise Chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters

  • Northeast Oregon Life Underwriters

  • Boise Association of Life Underwriters

  • Southwest Idaho Estate Planning Council

  • Treasure Valley Estate Planning Council

  • Coeur d'Alene Estate Planning Council

  • Idaho Society of Certified Public Accountants

  • Idaho Association of Licensed Public Accountants

  • Moss Adams

  • University of Idaho

  • Crested Butte

  • Arthur Andersen Training