Roy Krall

Title: Shareholder, Cavitch, Familo, & Durkin
Dept/Program: MTax Advisory Board

Professional & Academic Experience

Roy A. Krall has been an estate planning attorney and licensed to practice in Ohio since 1989. After receiving his Juris Doctor from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, cum laude, in 1989, he practiced at the Cleveland law firm then known as McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Haiman for five years and the Akron law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs for nine years, the last four as a shareholder, before joining Kaufmann & Kaufmann as a partner in March, 2003, Weston Hurd as a partner in August, 2006 and Cavitch, Familo & Durkin as a shareholder in July, 2011.

Roy also taught Estate and Gift Tax as an adjunct professor at the University of Akron School of Law in 1997 and 1998/

In 2003, Roy was among the first in Ohio designated as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the Specialty Board of the Ohio State Bar Association. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) since 2007. Roy has been given an “AV” rating by Martindale Hubbell and was in 2016 honored with the Accredited Estate Planner Designation by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. In 2021, Roy was listed in Chambers High Net Worth.

Having received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and practicing as an actuary for a year at Buck Consultants in New York City, Roy brings a technical background to his estate planning practice. He is a frequent lecturer on many different topics related to estate planning.

Roy is a past Chairperson of the Council of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section of the Ohio State Bar Association. He remains active on the Council, which is active in recommending legislation to the Ohio State Bar Association, which then sponsors many of the laws proposed by the Council.

Roy is a Fellow of the Ohio State Bar Association Foundation, the Akron Bar Association Foundation and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation. He also serves on the Curriculum Committee of the latter’s Estate Planning Institute.

Roy is an editor of the Probate Law Journal of Ohio, a bi-monthly publication intended to keep Ohio practitioners current on estate planning, trust and probate developments.