Edward D. Bender is a partner at Wood & Lamping. Ed practices primarily in the areas of estate planning, taxation and estate & trust administration. The estate planning area commonly includes planning for business owners, and Ed counsels them on their succession planning issues as well as their general corporate matters.

Ed advises individuals, banks and trust companies in their roles as fiduciaries for probate estates and private trusts. He has extensive knowledge of the four areas of taxation that are of concern to people who are planning their estate: the estate tax, the income tax, the gift tax, and the generation-skipping transfer tax.

Ed’s clientele is diverse, ranging from high net worth individuals considering a Domestic Asset Protection Trust, to parents with minor children who need a Contingent Trust for Minors, to persons who have a non-U.S. citizen spouse needing a Qualified Domestic Trust. He has written and lectured on these topics for community groups and at continuing legal education seminars for other attorneys. Ed also has experience handling school law and construction law matters. Ed was a member of the editorial board of the Northern Kentucky Law Review while in law school. He served in the offices of two local U.S. Congressmen while an undergrad at the University of Cincinnati. Ed volunteers his time in various activities at Immaculate Heart of Mary parish and through the Cardinal Bernardin council of the Knights of Columbus.