Atty. Christopher James Winton

Phi Beta Kappa

Co-Author

• "Basic Drafting of Wills and Trusts in West Virginia," NBI, Inc. 1991
• "Laying Claim: A Practitioner's Guide to Will Contests in West Virginia," 96 West Virginia Law Review 123 (1993)
• “Still Laying Claim: An Update to Developments in Will Contest Litigation in West Virginia”, 119 West Virginia Law Review Online 17 (2016)

Author

• "The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997: Still Waiting for The Relief," West Virginia Executive, Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 26 Spring 1998
• "West Virginia State Tax Procedure and Administration," chapter in West Virginia Practice Handbook, West Virginia State Bar, 2000, revised 2004
• "ABA State Environmental Taxes Deskbook," West Virginia chapter, ABA, 2001
• "The Death Tax is Not Dead: Estate Planning Highlights of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001," West Virginia Executive, p. 50, Winter 2001
• "Probate Happens: How to Sell Real Estate During a Decedent's Estate Administration," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 30 (November/December 2005)
• Case note, "Thompson v

Barnhart

• Irrevocable Trust Is Really Revocable When Remainder Beneficiaries Are Not Individually Named," The Trust SIG News 3, Spring 2006; "Probate Happens: How to Perform an Ancillary Administration in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 28 (May/June 2007); "Probate Happens: How to Involuntarily Remove the Personal Representative in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 36 (November/December 2007); "Probate Happens: How to Abate Creditors' Claims in An Insolvent Estate in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 30 (January-March 2009); "Probate Happens: How to Claim the Spousal Elective Share in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 28 (October-December 2009); "Probate Happens: How to Calculate the Spousal Elective Share in West Virginia," The West Virginia Lawyer, p. 42 (October-December 2011); Author, Chapter 51, § 1139, Bogert The Law of Trusts and Trustees, "Asset Protection Trusts" (West Virginia chapter)(2017); Contributing State Editor, West Virginia section, "ACTEC Comparison of the Domestic Asset Protection Statutes" (2017-2020); Contributing State Editor, West Virginia section, "ACTEC State Survey of Asset Protection Techniques" (2018-2020); Contributing State Editor, West Virginia section, “ACTEC State Survey of Ancillary Probate” (2020); “Size Matters (In Probate, Too): The New 2021 West Virginia Small Estates Act,” The West Virginia Lawyer Vol. 52, p. 44 (Winter 2021-22); “Go Small, or Go Big: A Continuing Dialogue on the West Virginia Small Estates Act,” The West Virginia Lawyer Vol. 53, p. 44 (Spring 2022)
• Named, "West Virginia Super Lawyer," for Estate Planning and Probate by Super Lawyers Magazine (Law & Politics)
• Selected, "The Best Lawyers in America," for Trusts and Estates (since 2013)
• Named Best Lawyers’ Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year for Charleston, West Virginia 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025
• Adjunct Professor, University of Charleston (West Virginia), Estate Planning FINA-415 (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)