Suzanne Tucker Plybon 404.873.8730 phone 404.873.8731 fax suzanne.plybon@agg.com Area of Practice Private Wealth

Ms. Plybon is a partner of the firm in the Private Wealth Practice Group. She is a Certified Public Accountant as well as an attorney. Her practice focuses on wealth transfer planning, estate administration and charitable giving. In addition to her law practice, Ms. Plybon is active in several professional and civic organizations, including the Atlanta Estate Planning Council, the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee and the Atlanta Regional Campaign Council for The Campaign for Duke. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Inc. Ms. Plybon is an author and frequent lecturer on estate planning topics and has appeared as a tax law commentator on CNNfn's program In The Money and CNN's CNN Today.

Professional Activities

• State Bar of Georgia (Fiduciary Law Section; Chairman, Estate Planning Institute, 1999; Editor, Fiduciary Law Section Newsletter, 1995-1998)
  
• Atlanta Estate Planning Council (Board of Directors, 1999 - 2001)
  
• Certified Public Accountant, North Carolina
  
• North Carolina Society of Certified Public Accountants
  
  
Publications

• Co-Author, "Estate Planning Strategies for Clients Who Wait Until the Last Minute," Estate Planning, October 2001, with James R. Robinson
  
• Co-Author, "Estate Planning for Procrastinators: Those Who Wait Until the Last Minute," Estate Planning, September 2001, with James R. Robinson
  
• Co-Author, "Estate Planning with Electing Small Business Trusts," Taxation for Lawyers, March/April 1997, and Taxation for Accountants, February 1997, with Stephen E. Parker
  
  
Selected Speeches and Presentations

• “Estate Planning (And Investing) Through Turbulence and Uncertainty,” Fiduciary Law Institute – Institute of Continuing Legal Education (“ICLE”) in Georgia, July 2003
• “Estate Planning and Will Format Basics,” Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, May 2003
  
• "Estate Planning for Procrastinators: Those Who Wait Until the Very Last Minute," 21st Annual Georgia Federal Tax Institute, June 2001
  
• "Basic Will Formats," Basic Fiduciary Practice - Institute of Continuing Legal Education ("ICLE") in Georgia, May 1998
  
• "Basic Will Formats," Basic Fiduciary Practice - ICLE in Georgia, May 1997
  
• "An Overview of Charitable Planning Techniques," 42nd Annual Estate Planning Institute - ICLE in Georgia, February 1997
  
• "GST Planning: A Nuts and Bolts Approach," 40th Annual Estate Planning Institute - ICLE in Georgia, February 1995
  
• "GRATS: Beating the Odds," Fiduciary Law Institute - ICLE in Georgia, July 1994
  
• "Planning for S Corporation Stock in Estates and Trusts," 38th Annual Estate Planning Institute - ICLE in Georgia, February 1993

Education
B.A., Duke University, 1980 (cum laude)
J.D., Emory University Law School, 1986

Admitted to Practice
State of Georgia, 1986