Steven J. Oshins

is a member of the Law Offices of Oshins & Associates, LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is rated AV by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®. He was named “Nevada Super Lawyer” in the Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning category in the March 2002 issue of Nevada Business Journal and listed as one of Nevada’s Best Lawyers in the May/June 2005 issue of Nevada Woman, as one of Southern Nevada’s Best Lawyers in the December 9, 2005 and November 24, 2006 Special Supplement to In Business Las Vegas, as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the Trusts & Estates category in the August 2006 issue of The American Lawyer, as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the Tax Law category in the November 2006 issue of Corporate Counsel and as of the Top 100 Attorneys in the December 2006 issue of Worth.

Steve has been featured and/or quoted in many media publications including, among others, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Kiplinger’s, Registered Rep, Horsesmouth.com, Investment News, Lawyers Weekly USA and What's On. He has authored numerous estate planning and asset protection articles in magazines such as Trusts & Estates, Probate & Property, Journal of Financial Service Professionals, The Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, CCH Estate Planning Review, Asset Protection Journal, Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, as well as others.

Steve received an EPIC Award as Best Young Author from Trusts & Estates magazine in 1998. Most of his articles, as well as his more detailed biography, can be read online at www.oshins.com. He is also a frequent lecturer nationally on advanced estate planning and asset protection techniques, including a presentation on asset protection at the 39th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning.

Steve has been very active in helping get some of the most valuable trust and creditor protection laws passed in Nevada. In the 2001 legislative session, he co-authored Nevada’s charging order law for limited liability companies and limited partnerships, making the charging order the exclusive remedy for a judgment creditor under Nevada law. He co-authored a change to that law in the 2003 legislative session that enhanced the 2001 version of the Nevada law. In the 2005 legislative session, Steve authored Nevada’s 365-year rule against perpetuities law that now allows people to set up 365-year dynasty trusts in Nevada.

Steve is the webmaster of www.oshins.com which is the most visited “Estate Planning and Probate” web site in North America according to alexa.com, a subsidiary of amazon.com.