Claire D. East | ATTORNEY

Claire D. East is a board-certified estate planning and probate attorney with extensive fiduciary litigation experience. As a result, her clients benefit from expert advice on the most efficient and effective estate planning strategies to avoid future conflict and to protect their families. She prides herself on developing individualized, comprehensive, and tax-efficient estate plans which reflect her clients’ personal values and goals. In addition, Claire routinely handles will contests, guardianships, and probate administrations ranging in size and complexity from the most straightforward to the highly complex or contested.  

Prior to forming Thompson East, PLLC, Claire was a partner at Hopper Mikeska, PLLC, where she focused on estate planning, probate, guardianship, and fiduciary litigation. Claire began her career as a staff attorney at The Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, and she also worked at the firm Giordani, Schurig, Beckett, & Tackett, LLP in the areas of domestic and international estate planning. When she’s not working enthusiastically with families to create the perfect estate plan or guiding clients through a probate or guardianship proceeding, you can find Claire on a baseball field cheering for her sons.