Thomas G. Freeman II, is Of Counsel in the Clarksburg, West Virginia, office of Jackson Kelly PLLC.  The primary focus of his practice is sophisticated trust, estate and business succession planning.  Mr. Freeman received a Bachelor of Science in accounting, cum laude, from West Virginia University in 1969.  In 1973, he obtained a Juris Doctor from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the West Virginia Law Review. Mr. Freeman began his legal career with the Firm (then Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O' Farrell), in 1973 and later chaired the Firm's Tax Department and was the head of the Estates and Trusts Practice Group.

During his long tenure with Jackson Kelly, Mr. Freeman gained national recognition, being listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America^® under Trusts & Estates beginning in 1989 and was elected a Fellow of both the American College of Tax Counsel and of the prestigious American College of Trusts & Estate Counsel.  He is a frequent lecturer on estate, trust and tax-related subjects and has written numerous legal education monographs and articles.

At the end of 2002, Mr. Freeman retired from Jackson Kelly and the practice of law.  He subsequently associated with the Dobbs Financial Group and served as the Director of Estate and Business Planning and an investment advisor representative of Northwestern Mutual Investment Services. In 2007, Mr. Freeman and his family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, and he then rejoined Jackson Kelly PLLC.

• American College of Tax Counsel
• American College of Estate and Trust Counsel (ACTEC), former West Virginia State Chairman
• American Bar Association- Section on Taxation: Committee on Estate and Gift Taxes; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law: member, Probate and Trust Division
• West Virginia State Bar Probate Law Committee, Former Chairman
• West Virginia Tax Institute- Former President
• American Judicature Society
• Charleston Area Estate Planning Council
• Huntington Estate Planning Council
  

• West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, former board member and Chairman of Planned Giving Advisory Committee
• Seelinger Family Foundation, Inc., Board of Trustees
• Chester Lewis Scholarship Trust, Board of Advisors
• West Virgina University Foundation Planned Giving Committee, Chairman - Charleston

• Dozens of Continuing Legal Education Presentations on various Trusts, Estates and Tax topics
  
• West Virginia State University, former adjunct faculty, Business Law
  
• "Planning for Life & Death," The Greenbrier Hotel Lecture Series
  

• Member, Board of Editors, West Virginia Law Review, 1972-1973
• Various professional legal education monographs and articles
• Promises to Keep, PBS Special ( 1999) 
  

• Named by Law & Politics to the 2010 edition of West Virginia Super Lawyers®
• Listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America^® beginning in 1989 (Trusts and Estates)
  
• Fellow, American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel
  
• Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel