JoAnne "Joleen" K. Searles

JoAnne “Joleen” Searles is a Partner in the Sarasota office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where she is a member of the Private Client Services Practice Group. 

Joleen focuses her practice on complex estate planning, trust and estate administration, settlement and probate, high net worth planning, as well as federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. She leverages her in-depth knowledge of estate planning to design plans for her clients, no matter how simple or complex the necessary estate plan might be.

Joleen also teaches continuing education seminars for financial advisors and attorneys regarding estate planning, wealth preservation, estate settlement, and relaying the latest changes in the law impacting estates and taxes.