About Our Speakers

Donald O. Jansen is Associate General Counsel, University of Texas System Office of General Counsel.  He is a retired senior partner of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (now Norton Rose Fulbright).  He is a former Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a current Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.  Mr. Jansen is a past Chairman of the Committee of Significant Current Literature and Vice-Chair of the Insurance Committee, Probate and Trust Division, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association.  Mr. Jansen is a specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is the past Probate Editor of the Newsletter of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He has been designated by his peers as a Texas Super Lawyer in estate planning in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He is a 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Eagle Scout Award presented by the National Association of Eagle Scouts. He is a past member of the Federal Bar Association National Council and a past president of the Houston Chapter. Mr. Jansen was elected to the Estate Planning Hall of Fame® in 2017 by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. He is an Accredited Estate Planner® (Distinguished). Mr. Jansen is a member of the Advisory Committee, Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, University of Miami School of Law.

Tama Brooks Klosek's practice is a tax practice focused on both the domestic and international aspects of estate planning and family wealth transfer and tax exempt organizations. Following graduation from Harvard Law School in 1999, Tama began her legal career with Vinson & Elkins in the Probate, Trusts & Estates Group of the Tax Section. After 10 years at Vinson & Elkins, Tama continued her legal practice with Klosek Howes LLP and formed Klosek & Associates PLLC in June 2013. Tama is Chambers Ranked in High Net Worth—Private Wealth Law and Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has been widely recognized in Houston, the State of Texas and nationally by her peers, as well as her clients and others, as an outstanding attorney in her field. Tama has significant experience in income, nonprofit (including private foundations), estate, gift, trust and generation-skipping transfer taxation and marital property planning. She has advised a variety of clients on domestic and international tax matters, and also consults on divorce matters in connection with complex marital estates. In addition to her legal practice, Tama is a Managing Partner in a national life settlements originations firm, Treyled Life Settlements LLC, where she works as part of an experienced management team to assist high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients of Treyled Life Settlements to efficiently exit life insurance contracts on a favorable basis through sales to third party institutional investors when life insurance is no longer desired or advisable. Tama has many local and regional professional affiliations and has presented seminars and continuing legal education on a range of topics related to her area of expertise, including life settlements, to numerous groups in Houston, Texas and nationally.