Lee Wendel’s practice focuses on succession planning for business owners, estate planning, charitable giving, and estate and trust administration. He is listed in Ohio Super Lawyers and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2006. He is the Best Lawyers 2025 Columbus Lawyer of the Year for Trusts and Estates.
His practice includes designing personal estate plans and business succession plans for business owners; designing trusts and administering estates for US families, as well as non-US families with US assets or US family members; planning and implementing irrevocable grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts and other lifetime gifting arrangements; planning and implementing generation-skipping trusts; designing and implementing limited partnerships and limited liability companies; advising charitable donors and organizations; and negotiating and implementing settlements of disputes involving estates and trusts. Lee coordinates the Squire Patton Boggs private wealth practice team.