Attorney Linda Keng, Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A., Jackson, Mississippi

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Linda Bounds Keng

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633 North State Street P.O. Box 427 Jackson, Mississippi 39202

Phone	(601) 949-4960
Fax	(601) 949-4804
Email	lkeng@watkinsludlam.com

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Areas of Practice:: ERISA and Employee Benefits; Trust and Estate Planning; Probate and Estate Administration; Taxation; Business Transactions

Bar Admissions:: U.S. Tax Court, 1992; Mississippi, 1984; U.S. District Court Southern District of Mississippi, 1984

Education:: University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, FL , 1986
LL.M. in Taxation
Honors: Cum Laude; Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS , 1984
J.D.
Honors: With Special Distinction
Law Review: Mississippi College Law Review, Articles Editor, 1982 - 1983; University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, 1977
B.S.B.A.
Honors: With Honors
Honors: Alpha Epsilon Alpha, Accounting Honorary Society

Classes/Seminars Taught:: Legal Considerations in Estate and Retirement Planning, Ag First Retirement Seminar, 2000; Recent Developments and Hot Topics in Estate Planning, Estate Planning for Professionals '99 Seminar, University of Southern Mississippi Foundation, 1999; Estate Planning and Health Care Decisions, River Oaks Health System Volunteer Auxiliary Retirement Seminar, 1998; Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Deposit Guaranty National Bank Asset Management Group Seminar, 1997; Estates, Trusts and Gifts, The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 Seminar, Phelps Dunbar, LLP, 1997; Estate and Gift, Education Incentives and IRA Changes, The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 Seminar, Arthur Anderson, LLP, Phelps Dunbar, LLP, and Merrill Lynch, 1997; Structuring the Small Business, Small Business Clients Big Legal Needs Seminar, Mississippi College School of Law and The Mississippi Bar, Business Law Section, 1997; Estate Planning: Wills and Trusts, Annual Continuing Education Extravaganza, Mississippi Association of Life Underwriters, Inc. et al., 1995; QPRT's, GRIT's, GRAT's and GRUT's and Recent Developments, The Trust Course, Professional Education Systems, Inc., 1994; Adjunct Professor, Mississippi College School of Law, 1986

Honors and Awards:: Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits Law and Trusts & Estates; Mississippi's 50 Leading Business Women, 2005; Selected as one of the best Employee Benefits lawyers in the United States by The Best of the U. S. LLC., 2006; Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Employee Benefits/ERISA, 2007

Professional Associations and Memberships:: American Bar Association; Member; American Bar Association, Taxation and Real Property Probate & Trust Sections; Member; The Mississippi Bar; Member; The Mississippi Bar, Taxation and Estates & Trusts Sections; Member; Hinds County Bar Association; Member; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Member; Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants, 2006 - 2007; Former Treasurer; President 2007/2008; Mississippi Estate Planning Council; Member; Mississippi College Estate Planning Council; Member; Financial Planning Association, Mississippi Chapter; Member; IRS Gulf Coast Area TEIGE Council; Member; Jackson Chamber of Commerce; Member; Mississippi Tax Institute, Board of Trustees, 1997 - 1999; Member; IRS TE/GE Practitioner Liason Council, Gulf Coast Region; Member; University of Southern Mississippi Foundation, 2008 - 2111; Elected to the Board of Directors