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(Updated June 16)

It's tempting, I know. You're trying to save money. You don't have lots of property to leave to others. Your estate isn't complicated.

If Ronald Lee Motley hadn't existed, some novelist or screenwriter surely would have made him up: a high-powered, flamboyant attorney with a smooth-as-silk Southern drawl who fancied ostrich-skin cowboy boots and liked to sail on a 165-foot yacht named after Themis, the female Greek titan of law,…