A. Stephen McDaniel is the senior attorney with Williams, McDaniel, Wolfe & Womack, P.C., having joined the firm in 1975. Mr. McDaniel's practice is limited to estate, charitable and business continuation planning, and probate and trust administration. He is the managing attorney for the firm's estate planning/probate section. Mr. McDaniel is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Council and a member of the Memphis Estate Planning Council. He is a Certified Estate Planning Specialist by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization and is an Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) and holds an Estate Planning Law Specialist (EPLS) designation awarded by the Estate Law Specialist Board.

Mr. McDaniel was named by Worth Magazine in December of 2006 as one of the top 100 estate planning attorneys in the country. He is included in the 2007 edition of the Best Lawyers in America and was named in 2007 by Business Tennessee Magazine as one of the top 150 attorneys in the State of Tennessee. Mr. McDaniel is the Past President of the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils, an organization representing nearly 200 estate planning councils across the country with over 20,000 members. Mr. McDaniel served as an adjunct professor in Estate Planning and Estate Gift Taxation at the University of Memphis School of Law for more than 10 years. He also served as an adjunct professor of the University of Memphis School of Business where he taught Business Law and Real Estate law.

Mr. McDaniel has lectured on estate planning topics across the country and most recently presented programs in Florida, Delaware, Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee. He is a co-author of A Grandparent's Guide to Gifted Children published in 2004, a contributor to Leimberg Information Systems (LISI) newsletters and has been quoted in Kiplinger's Personal Finance and USA Today.