Kean Miller continues to grow in Texas as we announce the addition of Tobey Blanton Forney as a partner. Tobey joins the firm in our Houston office, where she will focus her practice on family, estate, and legacy planning, tax-exempt matters, and probate litigation.

Tobey possesses more than 20 years of legal, tax, and estate planning experience. She strives to empower clients and handle their affairs with competence and thoughtfulness to bring about harmony at the end of life. Tobey advises clients on their personal wealth, family, and legacy, helping them to not only manage their assets, minimize taxes, and put the right documents in place, but to translate their success into a meaningful legacy. She helps ensure that each client’s legacy is strategically designed to empower the next generation, rather than burdening them with court and conflict.

Tobey also advises on the formation and governance of tax-exempt and small business entities. She has extensive experience forming and obtaining section 501(c) status for nonprofits, as well as advising tax-exempt clients on governance, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. She also advises small, family-held businesses on formation, governance, and succession planning.

Tobey earned her J.D. from The University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 1997 and her B.A. in Chemistry from Rice University in 1993.

About Kean Miller

Kean Miller is one of the largest and best recognized law firms in the Gulf South region. For more than 42 years, the firm has been innovating and growing, revolutionizing the standards for excellence in client service, and earning numerous awards for market-leading practices and thoughtful and creative legal representation. Consistently named to the National Law Journal’s NLJ 500 and the Law360 Top 400 lists, Kean Miller is Mansfield Certified for the fifth consecutive year. The firm’s collaborative culture, people-first approach, and devotion to quality are foundational to the firm’s continued success, reflecting its reputation in the market. From the firm’s eight offices in Houston, The Woodlands, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Lafayette, Shreveport, and Lake Charles, and more than 220 attorneys, Kean Miller delivers sophisticated and meaningful counsel to Fortune 500 leaders, national businesses, and local companies.

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