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Scofield & Scofield: Two Board-Certified Estate Planning Attorneys Who Are Also CPAs

Frank Scofield’s path to estate planning ran through an auto shop, an oil rig, a print shop, and a stint as a seasonal IRS employee before he became a CPA and then an attorney. It’s an unusually varied working background for someone now board certified in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law — and it pairs with a specific structural fact about his firm: both named partners hold a CPA or MBA in addition to their law degree, a dual-credential combination this firm has built its identity around for more than two decades.

Origin and Background

Frank E. Scofield has practiced law in Texas since 1980 and has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant since 1977. He earned his B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Texas in 1972 and his J.D. cum laude from Texas Tech University in 1979. Before law school, he worked as an auto mechanic, oil rig roughneck, printer’s assistant, and seasonal IRS employee, and later worked as an auditor and special projects coordinator for then-Texas State Comptroller Bob Bullock. He is board certified in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. His law partner, Janice Pierce, has practiced alongside him for more than 20 years and is also board certified in the same specialty, holding either a CPA or MBA credential as well. Both attorneys maintain active dual practices as both CPAs and attorneys — an unusual structural commitment, since most dual-credentialed attorneys let one license lapse into inactive status over time.

Practice Concentration

The firm practices estate planning, trust and probate law, tax planning, business transactions, and estate and trust administration, serving individual and business clients across industries including insurance, medical services, construction, cattle and farming, energy, and technology. The firm meets clients by appointment beyond Austin proper, including Round Rock, Georgetown, Fredericksburg, Junction, and Kerrville — a meaningfully broader Central Texas service radius than most Austin-based estate planning practices in this Estate Planning & Probate directory.

Notable Work / Track Record

As is standard for estate planning practices, Scofield & Scofield does not publish verdict or settlement figures. Awesome Attorneys is disclosing that gap rather than substituting marketing language for it. What is independently verifiable is an unusually long tenure: Frank Scofield’s continuous Texas practice since 1980 (45 years as of this writing) and CPA licensure since 1977, with board certification in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law maintained throughout a substantial portion of that career.

Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not locate published client reviews for either Frank Scofield or the firm on Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell, or Lawyers.com — each platform’s review section for this attorney shows no client reviews on file, which several of these platforms explicitly note. This is a meaningfully smaller public review footprint than most other firms in this directory, and Awesome Attorneys is disclosing that directly rather than filling the gap with the firm’s own marketing language. Frank Scofield has, however, received Martindale-Hubbell’s “Distinguished” peer-review rating, which reflects fellow attorneys’ assessment of professional achievement and ethical standards rather than client feedback.

Beyond the Courtroom

Frank Scofield served on the Rollingwood, Texas city council and spent many years as a Boy Scout Scoutmaster — civic and community involvement outside his professional practice. He was named a Five Star Wealth Manager by Texas Monthly in 2012 and 2013, and a Five Star Estate Planning Attorney by the same publication in 2014.

Recognition for This Austin Estate Planning Attorney

Peer-reviewed and third-party credentials: board certification in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization for both named partners, and Martindale-Hubbell’s “Distinguished” peer-review rating for Frank Scofield. Texas Monthly’s “Five Star” wealth manager and estate planning attorney recognitions are reader-survey-based distinctions rather than formal peer or judicial review, and Awesome Attorneys distinguishes them accordingly from the TBLS board certification above.

Texas Legal Backdrop

The firm’s dual CPA/attorney structure is directly relevant to how Texas estate plans address federal tax exposure: while Texas itself imposes no state estate or inheritance tax, larger estates can still face federal estate tax above the federal exemption threshold, and business succession planning — a stated firm focus — often requires coordinating entity structures (family limited partnerships, LLCs) with both the legal requirements for valid transfer and the tax consequences of how that transfer is structured. Trust administration in Texas is governed by the Texas Trust Code (Texas Property Code Title 9), which sets out a trustee’s fiduciary duties and the remedies available to beneficiaries if those duties are breached. None of this is legal or tax advice; a specific estate or business succession plan should be evaluated with a licensed attorney and, where appropriate, a CPA, based on the actual assets and business structures involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The strongest, most specific fact about this firm is the dual CPA/attorney structure maintained by both named partners across more than two decades of practicing together — a genuinely uncommon combination that directly benefits tax-sensitive estate and business succession planning. The honest trade-off, and one Awesome Attorneys is naming directly rather than glossing over, is the absence of any published client reviews across the major review platforms searched for this profile — a meaningful gap for a prospective client trying to independently verify day-to-day client experience, even though the underlying credentials (board certification, CPA licensure, decades of tenure) are well documented. For a client whose estate plan genuinely intersects with complex tax or business succession questions, the dual-credential structure is a strong, specific reason for inclusion on a shortlist. For a client who weighs client review volume heavily in attorney selection, it’s worth requesting references directly given the limited public review record.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Scofield & Scofield, P.C.’s official website (scofieldlawfirm.com), Frank E. Scofield’s Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell, and Lawyers.com attorney profiles, his State Bar of Texas directory listing, and the Texas Board of Legal Specialization’s public certification standards. Awesome Attorneys explicitly checked for and did not find published client reviews on the major platforms searched, and discloses that as a limitation of available public data rather than omitting the search.

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Frank Scofield or Scofield & Scofield, P.C. prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placement products to attorneys and firms, including this one, but sponsorship has no bearing on the editorial content, inclusion, or findings of this profile.