Ashley Thompson focuses her practice on tax and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, families, and businesses. She designs and implements comprehensive estate plans and business succession techniques while navigating estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer, and income tax consequences.
Areas of Practice
- Estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
- Estate planning
- Income tax planning
- Estate administration
- Individual tax planning
- Family business succession planning
- Private wealth planning
- Charitable planning and exempt organizations
- Partnership formation and tax planning
- Corporate formation and tax planning
Bar Admissions
- Colorado
- California
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. District Court (District of Colorado)
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Education
- University of Denver Graduate Tax Program – 2013, LL.M. in Taxation
- University of Denver Sturm College of Law – 2011, J.D., merit scholarship
- University of Colorado at Boulder – 2008, B.S.B.A., Accounting
- University of Colorado at Boulder – 2008, B.A., English
Recognitions
- Colorado Super Lawyer Rising Star (Tax and Estate Planning)
- Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star (Estate Planning and Probate)
Previous Positions
- Associate attorney with national law firm in Denver, Colorado and Orange County, California
- Adjunct professor for University of Denver Graduate Tax Program, Corporate Taxation III
- Judicial clerkship with the Honorable Thomas F. Mulvahill, Twentieth Judicial District
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Colorado Bar Association, Trust and Estate and Taxation Sections
- California Lawyers Association, Trust and Estate and Taxation Sections
- American Bar Association, Taxation and Real Property and Trust and Estate Sections
