What Will Your Legacy Be?
- Sep. 18, 2025 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
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What Will Your Legacy Be? Empowering Your Philanthropy for Tax-Smart Impact
Are you maximizing your giving? Philanthropy can be a powerful - and underutilized - part of your financial and estate planning. Many alumni and U of A friends are making a lasting difference for the causes they care about while enjoying tax savings - and you can too!
Join us for a light lunch to gain practical insights and strategies from a wills and estates lawyer and a financial planner. Explore how thoughtful philanthropy in your estate plan can create a lasting legacy for future students and our community, all while ensuring your loved ones are cared for.
Hosted by the Office of Major Gifts and Planned Giving.
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FEATURED SPEAKERS
Erin Lafuente, '01 LLB, TEP
Erin Lafuente is a partner in Dentons’ Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation group in Edmonton, with a practice focused on wills, estates, incapacity, and disability. She is called to the bar in 91ÒùĸÊÓÆµ and British Columbia.
Erin has extensive experience in estate litigation, including contested wills, undue influence, capacity challenges, and Family Maintenance and Support claims. She advises on disputes involving joint assets, estate accounting, and complex guardianship and trusteeship matters, and has been appointed by the Court to represent vulnerable adults in high-conflict guardianship proceedings.
Beyond litigation, Erin provides estate planning services such as drafting wills, powers of attorney, and personal directives. She also handles probate and estate administration, including contested matters. Erin has appeared before all levels of 91ÒùĸÊÓÆµ courts and is experienced in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and judicial dispute resolution.
She is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for Trusts and Estates and listed in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for Estate & Personal Tax Planning.
Ken Doll, '88 BA, '89 BA(SpCert), '91 MA, '94 BCom
Ken is an independent financial planner that has been providing financial, retirement and estate planning solutions for 30 years. Ken offers independent financial advice and fee-based comprehensive financial planning to provide clients with certainly about their financial future. He has worked with High-Net-Worth clients, prominent families, professional athletes (NHL players), executives, business owners, professionals, and farmers and ranchers. He builds financial plans for Canadians across the country, including those with property in the U.S.
Ken earned three degrees from the 91ÒùĸÊÓÆµ and holds several financial designations. He also serves as an expert witness offering litigation support to the legal community. Ken works closely with clients to identify unique financial, retirement, tax and estate planning solutions that help them build and protect their wealth, while minimizing tax.
Schedule
Doors open: 11:30 a.m.
Program: 12-1 p.m., followed by a reception - Audience
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