Mark W. Roberts K&L Gates LLP, Seattle Mark W. Roberts is a partner in the Seattle office of the law firm K&L Gates. He is a member of the firm’s Private Clients practice group, and his practice emphasizes all areas of estate planning and the administration of trusts and estates. He graduated from Bucknell University, in Pennsylvania, in 1978 and received his law degree with honors in 1981 from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is a past chairperson of the Real Property Probate and Trust Section of the Washington State Bar Association and previously served as co-chair of the Washington State Bar Association Probate Law Task Force. He is also a fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. He has served as a member of the executive committee of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle. He is a frequent lecturer at professional continuing legal education programs on topics relating to estate planning and probate and trust law.[June 2010]