Bill Gustoff Email & Phone Number

Bill is President of the Legal Division at Thompson & Associates, a Nashville-based company that works with nonprofit organizations to provide planned giving services and lead select supporters through a personalized, comprehensive values-based estate planning process.In addition to his full-time duties with Thompson & Associates, Bill maintains a limited private practice as a partner of Hagenow Gustoff Karas & Ridgway, LLP, where he is a founding partner. His practice is primarily in the areas of nonprofit organization law, estate planning, campaigns and elections, government relations.Bill has worked as an attorney in the areas of estate planning, family business transactions, and related areas, including nearly four years as General Counsel of a church-based national nonprofit organization dedicated to estate planning and planned giving.Bill is a Fellow in Charitable Estate Planning (FCEP) from the Institute of Charitable Estate Planning (ICEP), and also the Dean and a member of the ICEP faculty. He speaks at locations around the country for both professional and nonprofessional groups on estate planning and nonprofit organization topics. He has also written several articles and brochures on such topics. In addition to being a member of the Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska State Bar Associations, Bill is also a past President of Habitat for Humanity of Iowa, a past President of the Mid-Iowa Planned Giving Council and a member of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners, and the Christian Legal Society.Specialties: The Supreme Courts of Illinois and Iowa do not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law, and I do not hold myself out as a specialist.

Listed skills include Estate Planning, Philanthropy, Nonprofits, Planned Giving, and 35 others.