Jeff Cox is a shareholder and director with the firm. His
primary areas of practice are in the fields of business and
estate planning - working with clients setting up new
companies, buying or selling businesses, transferring
ownership of family businesses to their successors; and
working with clients in establishing and coordinating their
wills, trusts, living wills and powers of attorney. A well
respected legal advisor, Jeff serves as counsel to numerous
individuals and businesses, advising them in a broad range of
business and estate law issues. He is also general counsel for
one of Waco's most esteemed community banks and its trust
department, as well as advising and representing numerous
other banks and financial institutions. In the course of his
practice, Jeff has represented numerous clients in connection
with creditors' rights, loan documentation, loan workouts and
complex bankruptcy cases.
Jeff is actively involved in the Waco community, where he
presently serves as an elder of his church, and is engaged in
volunteer work.
Jeff and his wife, Julie, have been married since 1984, and
have two children. In his spare time, Jeff enjoys tennis,
skiing and coaching soccer.
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- Shareholder
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- Banking
- Bankruptcy and Workouts
- Secured Transactions
- Business Law
- Business Planning
- Buying and Selling
Businesses
- Corporate Law
- Commercial Transactions
- Estate Planning
- Probate
- Wills, Trusts and Estates
- Real Estate
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- Texas, 1987
- U.S. District Court Western
District of Texas, 1988
- U.S. District Court Northern
District of Texas, 1988
- U.S. District Court Southern
District of Texas, 1990
- U.S. District Court Eastern
District of Texas, 1990
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- Baylor University School of Law,
Waco, Texas, 1987
- Juris Doctor
- Abilene Christian University,
Abilene, Texas, 1984
- B.B.A.
- Major: Finance
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- Community Bank & Trust, Waco, Texas
- Academy Capital Management
- Bank of the Ozarks
- Texas Star Bank
- Arvest Bank
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- Instructor, Keys to Increasing
Retirement Assets and Leaving Them to Your Heirs, Baylor
University Continuing Education Program
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- Instructor, Estate Planning and
Taxation, Providence Foundation Estate Planning
Series
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- Speaker, Texas Business
Organizations: Choice of Entity and Formation, Baylor
University Fast Trac Entrepreneurship Training
Program
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- Speaker, Life and Death Planning
for Retirement Benefits, Heart of Texas Estate Planning
Council
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- Speaker, Collection Law in
Texas, Lorman Education Services
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- Moderator, Dealing with Tomorrow
Today: Successful Aging in the 90's, Waco-McLennan County
Young Lawyers Association
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- Moderator, Ad Litem
Certification Program, Waco-McLennan County Young Lawyers
Association
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- Life Fellow, Texas Bar
Foundation
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- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member
- American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law; Real Property, Probate & Trust Law; Tax Section
- Member, Commerical Law League of America
- Heart of Texas Estate Planning Council
- Member; Former Director
- State Bar of Texas
- Member Business Law; Real Property, Probate & Trust Law; Tax Section
- Texas Bar Foundation
- Life Fellow
- Texas Association of Bank Counsel
- Member
- Waco-McLennan County Bar Association
- Member
- Leadership Waco Alumni Association
- Member
- Crestview Church of Christ
- Elder; Member
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- Waco-McLennan County Young
Lawyers Association, Past President
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- Historic Waco Foundation,
Past President
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- Heart of Texas Estate Planning
Council, Former Director
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- Leadership Waco, 1989 -
1990
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- Phi Delta Phi
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- 1962, Dallas, Texas,
United States of America
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