Providing Personalized Legal Support Since 1926
Susan Margaret Evans
Susan Margaret Evans
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Practice Areas
- Estate and Trust Administration
- Guardianships
- Estate Planning
- Taxation
- Real Estate
Biography
Susan Evans focuses her practice on the needs of the elderly and their families. Concentrating her practice on estate planning, elder care planning, guardianships, and the administration and taxation of decedents' estates and trusts.
Susan is a member of the Ohio State, West Shore and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations, where she served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2022-2025. She is a current member and past chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Certified Grievance Committee. She is also a member of the Probate, Trust and Estate planning sections of the Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations.
Education
- Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
- J.D. - 1993
- College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
- B.A. - 1988
- Honors: Member, Phi Sigma Tau (Philosophy Honors Society)
- Major: Philosophy
- Universite De Paris-Sorbonne, Paris
- 1987
Bar Admissions
- Ohio, 1993
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1994
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1999
- U.S. Tax Court, 2003
Professional Associations
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Certified Grievance Committee, Past Chair
- Ohio State Bar Association
- West Shore Bar Association
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Director, 2022 to 2025
Published Works
- Legal and Financial Advice: A Delicate Balance, Cleveland Bar Journal, November, 2001
- Spam, Anyone?, Cleveland Bar Journal, September, 2004
Classes & Seminars
- Elder Law: Your Practice, Your Parents and You, 2001
- Ohio Probate: Beyond The Basics, National Business Institute, 2001
- The Probate Process from Start to Finish, National Business Institute, 2003
- Confidently Administering the Ohio Estate: from Start to Finish, National Business Institute, 2006
Pro-Bono Activities
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association 3Rs Program, 2023 to Present
- Mentor, Ohio Supreme Court Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program, 2007 to 2007
- Treasurer, Normandy School PTA, 2009 to 2011
- Volunteer Lawyer, Legal Aid Services of Greater Cleveland
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Bar Admissions Committee, 2021 to Present
- Ohio Notary Commission Board, 2020 to 2025
Languages
- French