Overview
Marla DeVicente Bohlander joined the firm in August 2010. She is a Shareholder of the firm and Co-Leader of the Private Client Services Practice Group. Marla’s practice focuses primarily on estate, tax and wealth transfer planning, estate and trust administration, and pre-marital and post-marital planning matters. Marla has experience in corporate and business matters, including entity selection, formation, and business succession planning.
Representative Matters
- Preparation of wills, trusts, and other sophisticated estate planning instruments
- Legal advice concerning federal income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax issues
- Representation of individuals and corporate fiduciaries in complex probate and trust administration matters
- Tax and legal advice regarding business matters and closely-held business planning
- Preparation of pre-marital and post-marital agreements
- Tax controversies with Internal Revenue Service
- Tax-exempt and charitable organizations
Honors and Distinctions
- Florida Trend’s Legal Elite, Up & Comer, Wills, Trusts & Estates, 2022
- Florida Super Lawyer, 2021-2024
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2019
- Tampa Magazine’s Top Lawyers List, 2021-2024
- AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Trusts and Estates, 2020-2025
- Lawyer of the Year, 2021
- Tax Law, 2024-2025
- Trusts and Estates, 2020-2025
Professional Involvement
- American Bar Association
- Tax Section
- Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
- Florida Bar
- Tax Section
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Tampa Bay Estate Planning Council
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Florida Fellows Institute, Class V Participant
Community Involvement
- Suncoast Hospice Professional Partners Council
- Tampa Connection, Class of 2014
News
- Sixty-Three Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2025
- Forty-Five Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2024
- Forty-Eight Attorneys Recognized in Tampa Magazine’s Top Lawyers for 2024 – Two Attorneys Listed in Top Categories
- Fifty-One Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024
- Forty-Five Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2023
- Forty-One Attorneys Listed in Tampa Magazine’s Top Lawyers for 2023
- Fifty-two Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2023 Four Attorneys Named “Lawyer of the Year”
- Nineteen Trenam Law Attorneys Recognized in Florida Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2022
- Twenty-Four Attorneys Listed in Tampa Magazine’s Top Lawyers for 2022
- Fifty-Four Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2022
- Forty-One Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2021
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Listed as Top Lawyers 2021 by Tampa Magazine
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Listed as Top Lawyers 2021 by Tampa Magazine
- Fifty-Four Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021
- Shareholder Marla D. Bohlander Accepted Into the Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
- Forty-Six Attorneys from Trenam Law Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2020
- Forty-Nine Attorneys Recognized in Florida Super Lawyers 2019
- Trenam Law Elevates Marla Devicente Bohlander and Kelly J. Ruoff to Shareholder
Thought Leadership
- “Reviewing Your Estate Plan,” Author, Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine, December 2018 Edition
- “How to Make Sure You Don’t Lose Your Charitable Contribution Deduction,” Author, Trenam Legal Update, January 2016
- “How to Make Sure Your Clients (and You) Don’t Lose a Charitable Contribution Deduction,” Author, St. Petersburg Bar Association Paraclete, pp. 8-9, January/February 2016
- “IRS Releases New Form 1023-EZ for Smaller Charities Applying for Tax-Exempt Status,” Author, Trenam Legal Update, September 2014
- “A Panel Discussion Seminar,” Suncoast Hospice Foundation, Clearwater, FL, May 2013