Ms. Dent does trust and estate planning and is a member of the Ohio, New York and New Hampshire State Bars. She practiced with a major Wall Street firm as well as with one of Cleveland's best-known firms before coming to Spieth Bell to work closely with several extended families. Rebecca gives in-depth trust and personal counsel to these families and provides ongoing family office-like administration, review and planning of inherited and new trusts, private foundations, etc. Rebecca was educated at Columbia Law School (JD 1975), where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, New York University (MA 1972) and Barnard College (BA 1970). Ms. Dent speaks at various Estate Planning seminars, has chaired the Cleveland Bar Association Estate Planning Institute, served as a member of the Estate and Gift Taxation Committee of the New York City Bar Association and is currently serving on that Association's Non-Profit Organizations Committee. Rebecca is listed in “Ohio’s Super Lawyers” and in The Best Lawyers in America, has been named one of Cleveland's top 25 women lawyers and one of Ohio’s top 50 women lawyers, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel serving on its Charitable Planning and Exempt Organizations Committee.