Robert “Bob” Kirkland is a Member of Kirkland Hochstetler PLLC, with offices in Naples, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; and Canton, Ohio. Licensed in Florida, Missouri, and Kansas, he works with individual clients on estate planning, estate and gift tax minimization, probate avoidance, gifting strategies, asset protection, charitable planning, and business succession planning. He also advises fiduciaries in estate, conservatorship, and trust administration matters and frequently serves as a mediator in trust and estate disputes.

Mr. Kirkland is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a past Missouri State Chair, and a past member of ACTEC’s Board of Regents and Executive Committee. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the ACTEC Foundation and is active in several ACTEC committees. He is Chambers-ranked in High Net Worth and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for thirty years.

A frequent author and lecturer, Mr. Kirkland has presented for ACTEC, Heckerling Institute, ALI-CLE, The Florida Bar, the Notre Dame Estate Planning Institute, and estate planning councils nationwide. He holds an LLM in estate planning from the University of Miami School of Law.