Estate planning is something most people know they need to do, but when you search online, you see hundreds of estate planning attorneys—even just in one city. It can be hard to know what makes one practice different from another.

One of the biggest differences in my practice is the setting. This is my home, and it’s also my office. There’s a reason for that.

When I was in law school, I worked for large firms in tall downtown buildings. My partner at the time worked in big firms as well. We were very familiar with that traditional model. The stories that stood out the most were the hardest cases—situations where people had done no estate planning at all.

There is a lot of information available. Firms host seminars. There are countless resources online. So we started asking a deeper question: why are people still not doing estate planning?

What we found was that it often wasn’t a lack of information. It was the obstacles. One-way streets. Parking garages. Tall buildings with marble columns. And then pairing all of that with conversations that are already deeply personal and sometimes uncomfortable.

Estate planning involves talking about family dynamics, trust, finances, healthcare decisions, and sometimes complicated relationships. Those conversations are hard enough without adding an intimidating environment.

A home-based practice felt like the most obvious solution. If you have children, you don’t have to take them to a 30th-floor office or arrange childcare just to have a conversation you may already be dreading. You don’t have to pay for parking. You don’t have to walk into a space that feels formal or overwhelming.

The goal is to reduce barriers.

Your estate planning documents are only as good as the information you share with your attorney. I can only create documents that support your goals if I genuinely understand what those goals are. And that requires you to feel safe, comfortable, and heard.

If you don’t feel comfortable sharing the full picture of your life, it becomes impossible to create documents that truly serve you.

That’s why I care about a home-based practice.

We live real lives. You might hear a dog barking in the background. Life isn’t perfectly curated, and estate planning shouldn’t pretend it is. The purpose of these documents is to acknowledge reality and plan within it—not an idealized version of it.