P. Keith Staubus

P. Keith Staubus is a 1983 graduate of Southern Methodist University Law School. He has dedicated his practice for the past 42 years to probate, guardianship, and trust litigation, as well as to will probate and estate administration. He is also recognized by D Magazine as a D Best Lawyer. Keith was selected to serve as the Chair of the Probate, Trust and Estate Section of the Dallas Bar Association, has served as a guardianship mentor to other attorneys in the Dallas Bar Volunteer Attorney program, has spoken on probate, guardianship, and trust issues for the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association, and other local Texas Bar Associations. He also assisted in revising the Dallas Bar Probate Section’s forms manual for attorneys. He began his career with a larger Dallas law firm offering a broad civil practice and rose to partner in less than 5 years. Although his practice has always been heavily concentrated in the probate court, he gained valuable trial experience in the firm’s litigation department, including business and commercial litigation, bank litigation, and family district court litigation. He left this firm in 1992 to form a probate boutique practice and has practiced exclusively in that setting since then. This broad litigation experience equips him to handle any lawsuit in the probate court, or estate or trust-related litigation in the county or district court. He also has substantial experience in probating wills, and in administering solvent and insolvent estates as both a court-appointed administrator, as well as representing executors and administrators. He has been appointed on a number of occasions by statutory probate Judges to pursue litigation on behalf of pending estates. He has also serves as an expert witness in litigation involving trusts, estate issues, and guardianships.