Carol . Warnick
Holland & Hart LLP
Carol Warnick is a partner at Holland & Hart LLP and concentrates her practice in two related areas. One is estate and wealth transfer planning and administration, where her clients include
executives, owners of closely held businesses, and families of significant wealth. The other is as a
member of the firm’s Fiduciary Solutions Group, where she advises and represents individuals, corporate and individual fiduciaries, heirs, beneficiaries, and creditors in the resolution of probate- or trust-related disputes through mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Ms. Warnick is also an AAA trained mediator and mediates trust and estate-related disputes.
Ms. Warnick is listed in the Chambers High Net Worth (HNW) Guide: Private Wealth Law – Colorado, 2017. She is among Utah Business Magazine’s Legal Elite for Estate Planning in 2017. Ms. Warnick is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and is a member of ACTEC’s Fiduciary Litigation Committee. She has been selected for Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. She was named the Lawyer of the Year, Litigation – Trusts and Estates, for Colorado for 2015 and 2017. She was honored as one of Worth Magazine’s Top 100 Attorneys for two consecutive years and was named one of Colorado’s Top 25 Women Attorneys and was listed in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers in 2013.
Ms. Warnick has authored numerous articles on a variety of legal topics in various publications. Some of her most notable articles have been on topics such as § 2036 challenges to family limited partnerships, discretionary distribution standards, and markers of maturity as a new paradigm for trust distribution models and gifting strategies.
Her community activities include serving as a board member of the University of Colorado Hospital Foundation and on the University of Colorado President’s Gift Planning Advisory Council. She is the current national chair of the LDS Philanthropies National Planned Giving Council, past chapter chair of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Denver Chapter, and past president of the Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council, and a member of the Denver Estate Planning Council and the Salt Lake City Estate Planning Council. She is also a member of the Cambridge Forum on Private Wealth Litigation Steering Committee.
Ms. Warnick graduated from the University of Wyoming School of Law with honors. She was
the articles editor for the Land and Water Law Review and earned the Order of the Coif award. She received her B.A. from Brigham Young University. Ms. Warnick actively practices in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
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