The firm provides tax and estate planning services to a variety of individual and business clients.  The range of services in the tax practice includes selection and creation of appropriate business entities, tax minimization strategies, representation in connection with tax controversies, tax analysis and strategies in merger and acquisition transactions, and estate planning to minimize tax.  The estate planning practice, in addition to estate tax planning, includes the preparation of wills and trusts, representation of fiduciaries, estate administration counseling and succession related litigation.  Jody Zaunbrecher, the firm's supervising partner for the tax and estate planning practice, has long been recognized as one of the preeminent tax and estate planning practitioners in the Gulf Coast area.