Esther M. Norton

Esther Norton is an associate in the firm and focuses her practice primarily in the areas of estate planning, probate, trust and estate administration, adoption, and general business matters. In her estate plan practice, Esther focuses on helping clients put together all of the documents necessary not only to manage their assets after death but to transition individuals and families through the aging process. She has a wide range of experience in drafting Wills, Trusts, Financial Powers of Attorney and health care documents, including Living Wills and Health Care Powers of Attorney. In Esther's adoption practice, she welcomes all prospective adoptive couples. She has recently represented multiple step-parents in Warren, Butler and Hamilton Counties through the process of adopting their stepchildren. In Esther's business practice, she has counseled numerous small to mid-sized companies from their initial start-up through the succession planning. She advises and prepares operating agreements for different business entities and member/shareholder agreements where there are multiple business owners. Outside of the office, Esther is busy with her family. She and her husband are active in their children's sporting and school activities. Esther volunteers regularly at her children's school and serves on the Leadership Committee of her Church's Cub Scout Pack. Esther also volunteers weekly as a personalized talking print reader for the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

• Partner

• Montgomery County Common Pleas Judicial, Judicial Clerk, 1998 - 2000

• VLP Lawyer, 2000 - Present
• ProSeniors, Inc., Trustee
• Personalized Talking Print Reader for the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI)

• Ohio, 2000
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 2001

• Cincinnati Bar Association, Estate Planning and Probate Committee
• Ohio State Bar Association, Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Section
• Ohio State Bar Association, Corporate Counsel Section
• Ohio State Bar Association, Women in the Profession Section
• Cincinnati Bar Association, Women Lawyers Committee