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Kimberly E. Civins

Kimberly E. Civins - Harrison LLP

Kimberly E. Civins

Office Managing Partner | Atlanta, GA

Kim has worked with wealthy individuals, families, executors, and trustees for over 20 years, using her extensive experience to help clients accomplish their wealth structuring and transfer goals.

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Kimberly Civins has worked with wealthy individuals, families, executors, and trustees for over 20 years. She uses her extensive experience to help clients accomplish their wealth structuring and transfer goals. Kim concentrates her practice in estate planning, estate administration, trusts, charitable giving and business succession planning matters. She frequently advises clients on transfer tax issues, including federal estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer taxes and IRS transfer tax audits.

Additionally, Kim advises tax-exempt entities, public charities, and private foundations. She also works with trust companies and bank trust departments regarding trusts and estates matters and federal and state regulatory compliance. In collaboration with litigation her colleagues, she also represents clients involved in estate and trust litigation and dispute resolution.

Kim is a frequent speaker at professional education events for attorneys and accountants. In 2016, Kim received the honor of being elected by her peers as a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

Before joining Harrison LLP, Kim was a trusts and estates partner at one of the world’s largest international law firms. She began her career in sports marketing before attending law school, primarily working in the professional tennis and beach volleyball worlds.

She is Past-President of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, and she is also a board member of Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries.

Kim is active in her local Norcross community and enjoys spending time with her husband, Phil, two daughters, Allison and Emma, and Snickers, a rescue pup.

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Capabilities

Estate Planning

Charitable Planned Giving

Estate & Trust Administration

Estate & Trust Litigation

Family Business Advice

Family Office Services

Non-Profit Organizations

Prenuptial & Postnuptial Agreements

Tax Planning

Admissions

North Carolina

Georgia

Education

Georgia State University, J.D., magna cum laude

Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S., honor graduate

Awards & Honors

The Best Lawyers in America®, Trusts and Estates, Greater Atlanta (2018 – 2025)

The Best Lawyers in America®, Lawyer of the Year, Trusts and Estates, Greater Atlanta (2022, 2024)

Chambers High Net Worth Guide, Private Wealth Law, (2017 – 2024)

The Best Lawyers in America®, Lawyer of the Year, Litigation and Trusts and Estates, Greater Atlanta (2023)

Georgia Trend Legal Elite (2013, 2020, 2022)

Woman of the Year – Rising Star (Silver), Citywealth (2021)

Organizations

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Fellow

Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Board of Trustees (2024-present)

Atlanta Estate Planning Council, Member since 2007, Board Member (2021-2025), and Past President (2023-2024)

Neighborhood Cooperative Ministries, Board Member (2023-present)

Georgia State College of Law Tax Clinic, Advisory Board (2011-present)

State Bar of Georgia Fiduciary Section Trust and Probate Code Revision Committee

State Bar of Georgia – Fiduciary Law Section

Atlanta Bar Association – Estate Planning and Probate Section