Mobley & Gontarek, PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Mobley & Gontarek, PLLC is a Nashville law firm built around trust and estate work. It plans and administers estates, advises on tax-sensitive asset planning, and handles litigation involving trusts and estates. The scope is narrow by design, and the pages return to the same set of subjects with steady detail.

The estate planning side covers wills, revocable trusts, and irrevocable trusts. It also prepares financial powers of attorney, health care powers of attorney, and living wills. In my opinion, the firm gains something by keeping these documents under one roof, since a will, a trust, and the powers that back them tend to move together in practice.

Beyond the core documents, the firm works on asset protection, special needs planning, and planning for blended families. Charitable giving sits alongside this, including advice on charitable gifts and the formation of charitable and nonprofit organizations. Each of these areas connects back to the estate and tax questions the firm centers on.

Business and succession work

The firm also advises family businesses. Its work here covers formation, operations, restructuring, and succession. That succession focus lines up with the estate planning practice, because passing a closely held business to the next generation raises many of the same tax and ownership questions a family estate does.

Tax law runs through much of this. The firm describes tax-sensitive asset planning and wealth preservation as part of what it does for clients. As a reviewer, I read that as a signal the firm treats tax exposure as a planning input from the start, not a matter picked up after documents are drafted.

Who the firm works with

The client list the firm describes is varied. It names small business owners, retirees, corporate executives, and physicians. It also names entertainers and artists, along with professional athletes. On the institutional side, the firm works with individual and institutional fiduciaries, charitable organizations and foundations, and closely held family businesses.

That range fits a practice built on estate and tax planning, since those needs cut across income levels and professions. A physician structuring an estate and a foundation managing a charitable gift both draw on the same underlying skills.

How the team is built

The attorneys page names four lawyers. Paul Gontarek, Jeff Mobley, and Allie Bohannon are listed as partners. Anna Vasquez is listed as an attorney. The two named partners carry the firm's name, which is common in firms of this size and points to a practice led by its founders.

Paul Gontarek holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University, earned in 1996, and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University, earned in 1999. His work spans commercial law, commercial litigation, and trusts and estates, including estate planning and probate. That mix gives the firm a litigation background to draw on when trust and estate disputes arise.

Jeff Mobley focuses on estate planning, wills, trusts, and estate administration. He graduated with high distinction from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his legal education at the University of Kentucky College of Law and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Those markers reflect strong academic standing during his studies.

The firm does not publish detailed biographies for Allie Bohannon or Anna Vasquez on the material available. I have left their backgrounds as the site presents them, with titles but without further claims about their training or admissions.

What the record shows

One outside marker appears on the firm's own pages. U.S. News and World Report has listed the firm since 2013. That gives a rough sense of how long the firm has held a place in that publication's coverage, though the site does not tie the listing to a specific category or year-by-year detail.

The firm does not state a founding year, and it does not publish case results or settlement figures. For a trust and estate practice, that reticence is unsurprising, since much of the work is private planning that does not produce public numbers. I would rather read a firm that stays quiet on figures it cannot substantiate than one that fills the space with claims.

How the practice reads

Mobley & Gontarek presents itself as a focused firm. The website returns to the same practice areas across its pages, and the descriptions stay concrete: named documents, named services, and a defined client base. A reader looking for estate planning, trust administration, tax-sensitive planning, or trust and estate litigation will find those areas addressed in plain terms.

The firm serves clients throughout Tennessee from its office on Crestmoor Road in Nashville. Its practice pairs planning work with the ability to litigate when trust and estate matters are contested, and that pairing is one of the clearer features of the firm. In my opinion, the combination of document drafting, tax planning, business succession, and trust litigation under one name gives clients a single point of contact for problems that often overlap.

What the site offers is a compact picture of a Nashville firm rooted in estate and tax work, staffed by named partners with stated credentials, and listed by U.S. News and World Report since 2013.