Jay Allen, Esq.

Bio

Jay Allen has practiced law in Mesa, Arizona for nearly three decades. He was born and raised here, built his career here, and still lives here with his wife Lori and their family. That kind of continuity in a place, in a practice, in a community is increasingly rare in the legal profession, and it shows in how Jay works.

Over a career spanning nearly thirty years of Arizona estate planning and business law, Jay has represented families and business owners across the full range of complexity the practice involves. Wills, trusts, family limited partnerships, business formations, real estate transactions, contract work, and probate administration. He has handled all of it, for clients at every level, over a career long enough that he was practicing when many of the rules governing Arizona estate planning today were still new.

Jay brings that depth to Mesa Estate Planning as Of Counsel. Clients benefit from his judgment on complex matters, his familiarity with how Arizona estate planning practice has evolved over nearly thirty years, and the kind of perspective that only comes from sitting across the table from families navigating genuinely difficult decisions for a very long time.

What Jay Focuses On

Jay's practice spans estate planning and business law across several areas. He works on wills and trust preparation, family limited partnerships and similar planning vehicles, business entity formation and transaction counseling, business succession planning including the sale of businesses, real estate transactions and leasing, contract review and drafting, and probate and trust administration.

That breadth is intentional. The clients Jay has served longest tend to come back across multiple areas of their lives. The estate plan drafted a decade ago. The business transaction last year. The probate administration now. Knowing the full picture of a client's situation makes the advice better at every stage.

Credentials

Jay graduated Order of the Coif from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 1991, a distinction reserved for the top ten percent of the graduating class. He served as Articles Editor on the BYU Law Review. Before law school, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Arizona State University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1986.

Those credentials matter less than the nearly three decades of practice that followed them. But they reflect the standard Jay has held himself to throughout his career.

Background

Education J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, J.D., 1991, Order of the Coif BYU Law Review, Articles Editor Arizona State University, B.S. Accounting, Magna Cum Laude, 1986 Based in Mesa, Arizona. Born, raised, and still here.

A Note on Working With Jay and McKay Together

Jay serves Mesa Estate Planning as Of Counsel, which means clients have access to his judgment and experience on matters that benefit from it without the overhead of a large firm. McKay handles the day-to-day client relationship, the drafting, and the planning work. Jay's role is to bring his nearly three decades of Arizona practice to bear on the situations that call for it. The combination gives this boutique firm a depth of experience that most practices its size cannot offer.

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