James Larry Frazier is a trusts and estate attorney and principal of the Law Offices of James Larry Frazier, based in Washington, DC. He is an experienced estate planner and litigator of trusts and will contests.
Mr. Frazier grew up in Charlotte, NC where he attended public schools as an honor student. He received his BA in economics from Columbia College in New York and Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. While at Columbia, he supervised youth at the Stone Gym Youth Center at Riverside Church and was a student leader of a successful student protest to prevent Columbia University from displacing Harlem’s Morningside Park to construct a gymnasium.
Mr. Frazier began his career with the newly formed National Black Child Development Institute. He established affiliates in 10 major cities throughout the country and helped introduce black culture into many of the new Head Start programs. It was and remains a child advocacy organization that works to ensure positive outcomes for vulnerable children of color who suffer from the dual legacies of poverty and racial discrimination.
It was at the National Labor Relations Board under the late Member Howard Jenkins, Jr. that Mr. Frazier began his legal career. He later served as an attorney with the Federal Labor Relations Authority. After transitioning into private practice with a small firm, he opened his own firm in 1995, specializing in wills, trusts, probate and art collection planning.
Throughout his career, Mr. Frazier has been committed to the arts and understands its invaluable role in education and culture as a source of inspiration. He has published serigraphs for renowned artists, Jacob Lawrence and Sam Gilliam. He has counseled other major visual artists and collectors with their estate plans and licensing agreements, as well as negotiated gifts and sales to major museums and institutions.
Mr. Frazier has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine and named Lawyer of the Year by the District of Columbia Bar. He has presented for the DC Bar, the National Bar Association, civic organizations, churches, television and radio on estate planning and art collecting. He is a member of the Washington, DC Estate Planning Council, the National Museum of African Art and is chairman of the advisory board of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.
