Steven Gibbs, Founder, CEO & Managing Attorney. Steven might not be described as your typical attorney. He strives, and encourages the Gibbs Law Legal Team, to maintain an unpretentious approach to educating and helping clients. Steven’s goal is not to proffer lofty legal theories but rather to pursue your expectations with a professional conversation offered to educate and foster mutual understanding. It’s your life and Steven considers it his job to help make your legal expectations a reality through the wise application of experience and comprehensive legal knowledge. Steven was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1999, the Florida Bar in 2007 and was admitted to the California bar in 2014. Keeping abreast of estate planning law in these three States has offered Steven and the firm a unique perspective of this area of law.
Along his career path, Steven was an associate attorney for an insurance defense law firm; a real estate negotiator for Target Corporation; corporate counsel for Civix, LLC and Vice President, Legal Operations, for North American Properties – Southeast. Prior to opening Gibbs Law Office, PLLC, Steven was an associate with the firm of Roberts & Englevalson, P.A. where he gleaned knowledge of trusts, estate planing and Wills at a young age.
Steven opened the Gibbs Law Office in 2008 and now focuses on laws that will enrich the needs of his clients throughout their lives and those of their children. The firm has developed a practice focusing only on estate planning matters such as: Trusts and Estate Planning, Wills, Asset Protection, Estate Tax Planning, Medicaid Planning, Elder Law, Real Estate, Business Law and Probate.
In Steven’s words: “I decided to practice in areas that families will need as they progress down life’s path. To help them with a solid foundation that will carry them throughout there lives is a rewarding experience for me and my staff.
Amy Brower, Bookkeeping and Financial Accounts – External Support Team. Amy began her career in 1992 at Capital One Bank in Springfield, MO, in the accounting department after receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Missouri State University. Amy took the plunge into business ownership in 2011 in starting Freelance Bookkeeping to provide small business owners with a full range of bookkeeping and financial support services. In 2008, Amy and her family relocated to Cape Coral, Florida, after vacationing in this area for many years and falling in love with the SW Florida community. Amy took the plunge into business ownership in 2011 in starting Freelance Bookkeeping to provide small business owners with a full range of bookkeeping and financial support services. Shortly thereafter, Amy began serving the Gibbs Law Office as the primary external partner for bookkeeping and financial support services.
Debbie Phillips, Probate and Trust Administration Paralegal – External Support Team. Debbie began her career in 1994 as a paralegal in Fort Myers. Debbie received her Associates Degree in Paralegal Studies from Southwest Florida College, graduating with honors in 1995. While completing the program, she received two “Outstanding Citizen and Cooperation” awards. In 2000, Debbie concentrated her focus in the areas of trusts, probate, and guardianship administration matters. With over twenty years working with probate and trust attorneys and their clients in Lee, Collier and Charlotte County, Debbie has assisted in settling hundreds of cases from their commencement to their conclusion. She has worked on estates of all sizes and values from insolvent estate to multi-million-dollar estates. Debbie has provided trust and estate paralegal support to the Gibbs Law Office as an external partner since 2014.
The Gibbs Law Office is a Florida estate planning law firm that provides complete Estate Planning, Business Planning, Asset Protection, Elder and Medicaid Planning, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Administration legal services throughout the greater Fort Myers, North Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Estero, Bonita Springs and Naples geographic areas and most legal services are available statewide in Florida.
The Gibbs Law Office was founded in January 2009 upon the commitment to provide client-centered legal services.
