Planning for your family or your business often feels like a choice between two unsatisfying options: the over-engineered, expensive services of some traditional attorneys, or the impersonal, one-size-fits-all approach of online platforms. Both can leave you feeling unheard and disappointed—like just another name slotted into a confusing web of forms.
You deserve better.
At Pappas Gibson, we listen more than we talk, and we seek to understand before we advise. Whether we’re helping you plan for your family, protect your assets, or structure and guide a business, our focus is the same: understanding what you’re trying to accomplish and why it matters to you.
That understanding is paired with years of experience advising thousands of clients—individuals, families, business owners, and investors—so that the solutions we design align seamlessly with your goals. The result is planning that is appropriately sophisticated and comprehensive, yet simple, elegant, and uncluttered. Nothing unnecessary. Nothing overlooked.
In fields often characterized by cookie-cutter solutions and unnecessary complexity, we take a tailored, client-first approach. We make the complex feel accessible, the overwhelming manageable, and the planning process something you can move through with confidence—knowing that the structures you put in place are thoughtful, durable, and built to serve you well over time.
Experience, Compassion, and Precision
This is legal services as architecture—personal, precise, and designed to endure.
Our Columbus-based practice has served the estate, trust, and tax planning needs of over 4,000 clients from all across Ohio.
We solve legal problems (both simple and complex) with compassion, responsiveness, and kindness.
We pride ourselves on making sure all of this experience takes a backseat to the fact that every single client has their own set of concerns, and their own unique story to tell. We listen to that story, ask questions about your goals, and then deliver a customized solution in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Our Services
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Estate Planning
We create estate plans tailored to each client’s unique needs. Whether your situation is simple or highly complex, we can handle all of your estate planning and asset protection needs.
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Probate & Trust Administration
We have extensive experience helping clients move through the probate process as quickly and cost-effectively as possible with the upmost compassion. We also guide trustees and beneficiaries of trusts through the trust administration process.
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Small Business & Real Estate
From formation to exit, and everything in between, we can help guide your small business through its unique journey. We also can assist on commercial and real estate transactions.
Our Clients Say it Best
Let’s Chat.
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