Estate planning that thinks about your family, not just your estate.
Nielsen Law is an Austin estate planning, special needs, and probate firm. Founder Liz Nielsen is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — a credential held by fewer than 1% of Texas attorneys. The firm builds wills, trusts, special needs plans, and probate administrations for Austin families across the full range of complexity and shape.
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A board-certified, family-focused practice.
Liz founded Nielsen Law in Austin and has guided hundreds of Central Texas families through the estate planning process since. The firm now includes four attorneys and a team of paralegals and staff who work in estate planning, special needs planning, estate administration, and business planning.
Families come in many shapes — traditional, single, mixed, blended. Whatever yours looks like, you are welcome here. The firm is a member of the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and its documents are drafted for the range of households it serves.
The firm doesn’t treat estate planning as a one-time transaction. The signing of an estate plan is the beginning of a long-term relationship, not the end of one.
Founder credential
Board Certified
Estate Planning and Probate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Held by fewer than 1% of Texas attorneys.
Recognition
Texas Super Lawyers, 2021–2026
Austin Monthly Top Attorneys
Status
Limited basis
The firm is currently accepting clients on a limited basis.
Four practice areas.
Estate planning, special needs planning, estate administration, and business planning. The firm practices in these areas exclusively.
Estate Planning
Wills, trusts, and the documents that protect your family if something happens to you.
Read more →Special Needs Planning
Special needs trusts and the long-view planning that protects a loved one with a disability without disrupting public benefits.
Read more →Estate Administration and Probate
Guidance through what happens after a loved one passes — whether that requires probate court or a private trust administration.
Read more →Business Planning
Entity formation, governance documents, and the corporate work that intersects with the firm’s estate practice — particularly business succession.
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Four attorneys.
The firm’s attorneys bring depth from board certification in estate planning, trust administration at a corporate trustee, and business and corporate practice at large firms. Together with the firm’s staff, they are how Nielsen Law delivers what it delivers.
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Founder
Liz Nielsen
- EZRead bio →
Attorney
Elizabeth Ziegler
- KWRead bio →
Attorney
Katlyn Winters
- JGRead bio →
Attorney
John Glode
Listen first.
Every family is different. Before the firm drafts anything, the attorneys get to know yours — what you have, what you care about, who you’re planning for. The plan follows from the conversation, not the other way around.
Explain plainly.
Estate planning has more jargon than it needs. The firm’s approach is to give clients the information they need to make informed decisions about their plan.
Stay available.
Plans are not transactions. Family circumstances change; tax law changes; the assets change. Nielsen Law treats the signing meeting as the beginning of an ongoing relationship, not the end of an engagement.
Ready to put a plan in place?
The first conversation is free. You’ll leave with a clear sense of what your plan should cover, how long it will take, and what it will cost.