Doris brings clients extensive experience in estate planning and probate law, advising on options available to ensure efficient management of an estate during incapacity, and helping structure an estate plan to promote the orderly disposition of the estate at death. She places a particular focus on the reduction or elimination of federal estate taxes through lifetime gifts, credit-sheltered trusts and inter vivos or testamentary charitable trusts. And in estate administration, she strives to provide supportive and knowledgeable counsel to decedents' families and personal representatives as they identify and distribute assets and pay any outstanding debts and taxes.

Doris serves as Commissioner for the Town of Biltmore Forest. She is also currently a member of the Brevard Music Center Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Royce and Jane Reynolds Fund Committee of the United Methodist Foundation and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Givens Estates, Inc.