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Sue Abbott, a partner in Goodwin’s Trusts & Estate Planning practice, is the chair of the firm’s Exempt Organization group, former chair of the firm's Higher Education practice, and a member of the firm's Impact and Responsible Investing practice. She focuses her practice on tax-exempt organizations, probate and trust law, and estate planning, with a particular emphasis on charitable planning. She advises tax-exempt organizations on issues related to their formation, operation...

For the past 30 years, Jonathan has developed considerable experience in the areas of charitable gift planning, estate planning and estate administration, tax-exempt organizations, federal and state taxation, IRS practice and procedure, real estate, and business formations and transactions. Charities and Charitable Gift Planning - Jonathan represents donors and tax-exempt organizations in Maryland and the District of Columbia, but he also represents individuals, families, and charitable organ...

Jerry Allen practices in the areas of taxation, federal tax controversy, federal tax compliance, nonprofit health care law, religious organizations, colleges and universities, nonprofit corporate law and state real property tax matters.

Attorney Johanna J. Allex is a partner in Stafford Rosenbaum LLP 's Madison office where she helps families and individuals plan for and manage life’s expected and unexpected transitions. Johanna’s law practice covers all aspects of estate planning and estate administration, marital property law, business succession planning, and tax-exempt organization planning and operations. Johanna is a Certified Public Accountant and serves on the Firm’s Board of Directors. Johanna&rsqu...

Oliver F. Ames, Jr. is a partner whose practice is concentrated in the areas of trusts & estates and exempt organizations. Olly's practice focuses on estate planning, estate and trust administration, charitable giving and private foundation matters. In addition to having extensive experience with probate law and gift and estate tax issues, Olly frequently handles real estate and corporate matters as they relate to clients' estate planning needs. Prior to joining Casner & Edwards, LLP,...

Cindy L. Andrews serves as a director in the Firm’s Oklahoma City office. A practitioner since 1994, Cindy brings to Crowe & Dunlevy experience in several areas of law, including employee benefits, trusts and estates, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, taxation, and partnership. A certified public accountant (inactive), Cindy holds several licenses to practice law, including the U.S. District Court (Western District of Oklahoma) and the U.S. Tax Court. Recognized in her field, ...

Michele Arbeeny concentrates her practice on nonprofit, real estate, health care and municipal finance matters. She maintains a successful track record of representing financial institutions and nonprofits in all aspects of secured and unsecured financing, including acquisition, construction, revolving and term loans, as well as tax-exempt and taxable bonds. Michele also represents financial institutions and developers in affordable housing transactions. Michele is the Chair of Windels Marx W...

Trever is a partner at Cades Schutte. He represents taxpayers in tax controversies and disputes with the IRS and the Hawai‘i State Department of Taxation. Trever handles audits, administrative appeals, and litigation in the federal and state courts, including the courts of appeal. Trever also advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations on issues including obtaining tax exemption, addressing unrelated business income, and using joint ventures and subsidiary organizations. He currently...

Mr. August is a shareholder in the firm. Mr. August has been with the firm since 1994. He is a certified specialist in the fields of both Taxation Law, and Estate Planning and Probate by The Supreme Court of South Carolina. He is listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Bursiness Organizations, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Litigation and Controversy - Tax, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude ...

Ms. Azurin concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate, commercial and health law, including business and not-for-profit corporation formation and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. As the firm’s Not-For-Profit Practice Team Leader, Ms. Azurin also counsels not-for-profit and health care clients on a broad array of issues, including corporate governance, compliance and other transactional arrangements.

Mr. Ballard focuses his practice in estate planning, trusts administration, nonprofit organizations, taxation and business planning. Mr. Ballard is a recipient of the 2007Attorney of the Year Award from Community Legal Resources. He is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Ballard currently serves on the Board of Directors of FIRST (Michigan), the Board of Directors of the Dispute Resolution Center in Ann Arbor, the Governance Committee of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW) in ...

Amy L. Barnes is a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate Law and Tax practice where she advises clients on tax planning matters. Her practice focuses on structuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations; designing and implementing executive compensation arrangements, including navigating tax limitations applicable to such arrangements; and assisting clients with various federal and state tax issues, including tax-free reorganizations, equity rollovers, restructurings a...

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Elizabeth is a partner in the private client and tax team at Withers Bergman LLP. She focuses her efforts on estate planning, planned giving and tax-exempt organizations. Elizabeth represents clients in matters related to family wealth transfers for large estates, sophisticated estate and gift tax saving techniques, charitable planned giving, and complex probate and trust administrations. She also regularly represents tax-exempt organizations in formation, organizational and operational issue...

Margaret L. Behm has earned a reputation as the go-to person in 40 years of representing clients and forging coalitions for change. After beginning her legal career in 1976 at Legal Services of Middle Tennessee, Inc., Behm and Marietta Shipley in 1980 founded Shipley and Behm, the city’s first all-woman law firm. “Back then, women just weren’t taken seriously as business owners or lawyers,” Behm says. “I wanted to run my own business and demonstrate that women co...

Mr. Berdan provides practical solutions to complex issues associated with corporation finance and merger and acquisition transactions, helping large and small businesses and their owners efficiently achieve their goals and objectives. He also counsels management teams and boards of directors with respect to public disclosure matters and their fiduciary duties generally, including in relation to unsolicited and hostile acquisition proposals. Mr. Berdan focuses his transactional practice on neg...

I have practiced law in Atlanta for more than 30 years and I genuinely enjoy being a lawyer. I am privileged to work with clients who are creating and growing innovative companies. Throughout my legal career, I have had the opportunity to work with exceptionally successful business owners on the wide range of legal and business issues that directly effect the business owner and his or her business. I am the head of Berman Fink Van Horn’s corporate and business practice. In addition to d...

Leah Bishop focuses her practice on tax planning for high net worth individuals and closely held businesses and in the administration of estates and trusts. Her areas of focus cover a wide range of industries, including real estate, manufacturing, entertainment and professional services. Passionate about philanthropy, Leah also has extensive experience in the areas of charitable giving and tax-exempt organizations. Leah’s estate planning experience includes all matters pertaining to hig...

Bill’s practice is focused on helping charities and other tax-exempt organizations with all their legal and business needs. Over the course of his 25-year career at the firm, Bill has helped form nearly 200 non-profit organizations and secured tax-exempt status for them. His practice also involves assisting established non-profits with the full range of their various business matters. Clients Bill’s tax-exempt clients are located throughout Iowa and range from small start-up chari...

Brad Boone has more than 34 years of experience focusing on income tax law of corporations, partnerships and individuals on the federal, state and local levels. He represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Kentucky Department of Revenue. He also handles complex business transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, contracts and agreements. His practice also includes representing various tax exempt organizations. The types of businesses that Mr. Boone...

Bill Boyd is a member of the firm’s Business, Finance, and Real Estate Department and practices in the area of corporate law (organization, operation, and planning), regulatory law (financial institutions, health, certificate of need, insurance, and government contracts), and commercial law (secured loans, contracting matters, mergers, and acquisitions). Bill has extensive experience representing financial institutions, insurance companies, health care providers, and non-profits, includ...

Michael B. Bressman is Of Counsel with the firm. Additionally, he serves as Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he has taught a variety of courses such as Contracts, the Law of Cyberspace, and Art Law. Michael directs the law school’s clerkship program, which supports students and graduates applying for post-graduation judicial clerkships. With a career spanning more than 25 years in premier law firms, as in-house corporate counsel, and as a professor at one...

Jim Broeking works with nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies in accessing the capital markets, focusing his practice on the issuance of tax-exempt bonds. He represents borrowers, underwriters and banks and serves as bond counsel in structuring and documenting transactions. He also represents nonprofit organizations in affiliations and joint ventures. What do you focus on? Health Care and Senior Living Providers I work with health care and senior living providers in connection wit...

Randal J. Brotherhood has more than thirty years of experience representing businesses and their owners in a wide variety of industries and settings. He also devotes a substantial part of his practice to representing tax-exempt organizations, foundations and trade associations of all types and sizes, ranging from local charitable organizations to large national and international membership associations. Randy represents business clients both on a day-to-day general counsel basis and as a stra...

Over his 45+ career, Bob focused his law practice in real estate, commercial transactions and charitable organizations. He has represented clients in a commercial and real estate transactions with particular expertise in church and para-church ministries and in medical real estate transactions. Bob advises clients in a wide range of business transactions of ongoing operations. Through his nonprofit work over the last 15 years, he represents secular and faith-based nonprofit entities, includin...

Stephen Brown focuses his practice on business formation and structuring, wealth transfer planning, and litigation involving fiduciaries, trusts, estates and guardianships. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law. Stephen regularly advises individuals on a range of estate planning strategies, including the use of simple and complex trust arrangements to achieve their personal and charitable objectives in a tax advantaged manner. He also has extensive experience a...

John P. Burton 505.954.3906 jburton@rodey.com Education Harvard Law School (L.L.B., 1968) Louisiana Tech University (B.S., magna cum laude, accounting major, 1965) Professional Experience Jack Burton is a director in the Santa Fe office. He has a state-wide, multi-disciplined, commercial practice involving transactions, alternative dispute resolution and litigation in federal and state courts, and legislative representation. He handles complex, commercial disputes of most kinds, including lit...

As head of Sirote's Intellectual Property Practice, Tim provides skilled counsel in the complex areas of federal and state registration of trademarks, the licensing of trademark rights, and the protection of trademarks against infringement, including domain name and internet-related disputes. He also counsels clients on copyright registration, protection, and licensing, as well as software licensing. Additionally, Tim advises clients in the areas of franchise disclosure compliance and franchi...

Paula Calimafde chairs the firm’s Retirement Plans , Employee Benefits and Government Relations practice groups and is also a senior member of the Estate Planning , Tax and Nonprofit groups. She has more than 35 years of experience advising companies and tax-exempt organizations on qualified and non-qualified retirement plans and employee benefits, including non-qualified deferred compensation, welfare benefit and cafeteria plans. She is a nationally recognized leader in the field of cr...

Douglas C. Carlson has extensive experience in corporate, partnership, individual and estate tax matters. The primary emphasis of his practice is on transactional planning, including acquisitions and dispositions, reorganizations and limited partnership syndications, liquidations and executive compensation, including stock options and deferred compensation. He has substantial experience in compliance activities, controversy matters, and state and local tax matters. As a business law attorney,...

Scott Carpenter focuses primarily on general counsel, corporate and transactional matters, complex litigation, business advice, transactions, employment issues and conflict resolution and avoidance for condominiums, homeowners associations, planned community associations, cooperatives, churches and other nonprofit clients. As the author of Community Association Law in Arizona, published by the State Bar of Arizona, Scott is highly regarded on community association matters. He is a frequent co...

Ellis McGehee Carter exclusively represents, nonprofit, tax-exempt and mission based businesses with respect to corporate and tax matters as well as donors with respect to major gifts. Representative experience includes: Assisting affiliated nonprofits to determine their ideal structure, implementing the structure and counseling to ensure ongoing legal and tax compliance; Advising corporate, independent and family private foundations regarding compliance with tax rules and regulations, includ...

At Withers Bergman LLP, Steven focuses his practice on estate planning, trust and estate administration, charitable giving and representing tax-exempt organizations. He has designed and used computer modeling to show the economic consequences of various estate planning and charitable giving techniques. Steven is also experienced in the area of executive compensation, focusing on compensation and intermediate sanctions issues for tax-exempt organizations. Steven has represented exempt organiza...

John E. Christopher is a partner at Manley Burke, LPA. He primarily practices in the areas of nonprofit organizations, business organizations, tax, and estate planning. John’s tax focused education and his years of experience in working with a broad variety of nonprofit organizations (both charities and non-charities) allow him to provide focused, relevant and usable legal advice to his nonprofit clients in all phases of their operations, from creation and start up through termination. ...

Sarah Connolly is a partner in the Private Clients group focusing on estate planning, wealth transfer and tax strategies. She works with clients in all phases of the life cycle who wish to transfer their assets effectively and efficiently during life or on death. What do you focus on? In my fifteen plus years of practice, I have developed three areas of focus: Estate and Tax Planning I focus on estate and tax planning for individual clients. I have extensive experience in sophisticated gift, ...

Prior to attending law school at Washington & Lee University School of Law, graduating with honors, John earned a MRE and Ph.D. in administration. For over 28 years of practice, he has focused on insurance defense. He is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbel. John is a member of the Virginia Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute (Employment Law Committee) and the prestigious International Association of Defense Counsel. John is also a member of the American Boa...

Counsel to a wide range of charitable and other nonprofit entities, and those who support them, Mike Cooney provides the nonprofit corporate and tax-exempt context in which these organizations can drive mission and margin. He directs the firm’s focus in higher education and exempt organizations. What do you focus on? Focus on opportunities My work optimizes the ability of nonprofits to accomplish their mission by identifying opportunities for enhanced fundraising and grant access, proje...

Kathie Coyle has practiced in the areas of estate planning and tax-exempt organizations for more than three decades. She does complex estate planning for individuals, many of whom are charitably inclined. Ms. Coyle has a particular interest in inter-generational issues that arise in the realm of charitable giving and wealth transfer. She assists clients in effective philanthropic strategies, particularly in the area of private foundations and charitable trusts. Ms. Coyle’s clients also ...