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Tama Brooks Klosek
Tama's practice is a tax practice focused on both the domestic and international aspects of estate planning and family wealth transfer and tax exempt organizations. Following graduation from Harvard Law School in 1999, Tama began her legal career with Vinson & Elkins in the Probate, Trusts & Estates Group of the Tax Section. After almost 10 years at Vinson & Elkins, Tama continued her legal practice with Klosek Howes LLP and formed Klosek & Associates PLLC in June 2013. Tama is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has been widely recognized in Houston and in the State of Texas by her peers, as well as her clients, as an outstanding attorney in her field. Tama has significant experience in income, nonprofit (including private foundations), estate, gift, trust and generation-skipping transfer taxation and marital property planning. She has advised a variety of clients on domestic and international tax matters, and also consults on divorce matters in connection with complex marital estates. In addition to her legal practice, Tama is a Managing Partner in a national life settlements originations firm, Treyled Life Settlements LLC, where she works as part of an experienced management team to assist high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients of Treyled Life Settlements to efficiently exit life insurance contracts on a favorable basis through sales to third party institutional investors when life insurance is no longer desired or advisable. Read More
Lisa J. Kaufman
Lisa is an estate planning and probate law attorney for individual, professional and corporate clients. Lisa has been in private law practice since 1996 in the areas of estate planning and estate administration at the firms of Vinson & Elkins LLP and Fox & Associates, L.L.P. She began working with Klosek Howes LLP in 2011 and is now Of Counsel to Klosek & Associates PLLC. Lisa furnishes sophisticated planning and estate and trust administration services, including tax and retirement planning, asset protection, charitable and gift planning, wealth transfer, business succession and other corporate planning. Read More
