Diane Blackburn Burks concentrates her practice in corporate and trusts and estates matters. Ms. Burks's practice focuses on estate planning, estate administration and gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning for individuals and closely held businesses.
Ms. Burks is a member of the Charlotte Estate Planning Council and was selected to the Mecklenburg County Bar Leadership Institute for 2012. She received a Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Pro Bono Service Award in 2011 and the North Carolina Bar Association Younger Lawyer
Pro Bono Service Award Honorable Mention in 2012.
Ms. Burks earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 2004. She went on to receive her Juris Doctor degree,
magna cum laude, from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2007, where she was a member of the
Wake Forest Law Review and Order of the Coif. Ms. Burks is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the South Carolina Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Publications
- "Structuring an Endowed Nonprofit," North Carolina Philanthropy Journal (March 16, 2012)
- "Estate Tax Deferral May Be Beneficial For Real Estate Assets," North Carolina Lawyers Weekly (July 20, 2009)