Ross Sims is a partner in MWM’s Wills, Trusts, and Estates practice. He is a highly skilled estate planning attorney with deep expertise in wealth distribution, tax strategies, and asset protection for high-net-worth individuals and families.

With a focus on asset protection, wealth transfer, business succession, and charitable planning, Ross helps clients create multi-generational legacies while minimizing risk and tax exposure.

Ross brings a unique blend of legal, tax, and financial expertise to every engagement. In addition to working as a partner in private law firms in Dallas, Ross worked as a Vice President of Planning at New York Life, advising affluent clients nationwide on building and preserving wealth.

Ross Sims brings a strategic and solutions-driven mindset to every client engagement, designing legal structures that anticipate risk and strengthen long-term stability. His work reflects a deep understanding that the best plans are those built to endure—thoughtful, precise, and proactive.

Based in Dallas, Ross is a devoted husband, father, and active member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Outside the office, he enjoys golf, fitness, and family time.

  • Provides counsel to families and private businesses on wealth preservation, wealth transfer, asset protection, estate tax mitigation, charitable organizations, and income tax mitigation
  • Implements complex estate planning strategies, including family limited partnerships, family limited liability companies, dynasty trusts, living trusts, irrevocable trusts, wills, pre and post-nuptial planning, intentional defective grantor trust, and beneficiary defective irrevocable trusts.
  • Represents and counsels closely held companies on asset protection, business succession, business transfer, buy/sell agreements, entity creation, and deferred compensation agreements.
  • Reviews and provides counsel on current estate plans and structures and implements updates using modern techniques.

Louisiana State University Law, JD, 2016

cum laude

Auburn University, BS, 2009

Business Administration

Texas, 2019