M. KENT OLSEN is a partner in Olsen & Traeger, LLP specializing in estate planning, estate administration, will contests, trust and estate litigation, guardianships, conservatorships, advance medical directives and elder law. Mr. Olsen was magistrate of the Denver Probate Court for six years. A member of the Trust and Estate Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association, he is past chair of the section, past chair of the Rules and Forms Committee, past column editor for the Estate and Trust forum of the Colorado Lawyer, co-chaired the Protective Proceedings Act subcommittee and now serves on the Statutory Revisions Committee. Mr. Olsen was an appointed member of the Governor's Commission on Life and the Law. He is also a member of the Denver, Colorado and American bar associations, as well as the Denver Estate Planning Council. In addition to being a former instructor for paralegals and a member of the advisory board of Denver Career College, Mr. Olsen is a frequent author and lecturer on probate, disabilities planning, health care treatment, protective proceedings, legal ethics and issues on aging. He is past president of the Colorado Fund for People with Disabilities, Inc., "pooled" Medicaid trust, and president of the Arc of Denver, an advocacy organization for people with developmental disabilities. His name appears in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and in Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.  Selected to Colorado Super Lawyers 2006 and 2007.