Areas of Practice

• Business & Commercial Law
• Contracts
• Business Organizations
• Estate Planning
• Trusts
• Wills
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Real Estate Law
• Taxation Law
• Asset Protection
• Business Formation
• Business Planning
• Business Successions
• Business Taxation
• Buying and Selling of Businesses
• Closely Held Business
• Contested Trusts and Estates
• Estate Administration
• Estate Litigation
• Family Wealth Transfer
• Federal Estate and Gift Taxation
• Federal Income Tax
• Generation Skipping Tax
• Like Kind Exchange
• Limited Liability Company Law
• Living Trusts
• Living Wills
• Probate Administration
• Professional Corporations
• Tax Planning
• Trust Administration Litigation
• Trust Litigation
• Trusts and Estates Taxation
• Trusts and Estates

Bar Admissions

• Missouri, 1984
• Illinois, 1981
• Pennsylvania, 1983
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1981
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1981
• U.S. Tax Court, 1982

Education

• DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1983
  LL.M.
  Honors: Recipient, First Prize in Second Student Writing Contest, 1982-1983
  Major: Taxation
  
  
• Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1981
  J.D.
  
  
• Northwestern University, 1978
  B.A.
  
  
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 1977
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975
  
  

Published Works

• "Bob Jones University: Why the Controversy?", The Decalogue Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter, 1984
• "New Developments Regarding Advertising Income of Tax-Exempt Organizations", American Business Law Journal, Vol. 24/1, Spring, 1986
• "Neither Simple Nor Fair", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3F, Column 2, September 28, 1986

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Adjunct Professor, Webster University Graduate School of Business, 1987 - 1990
• Associate Professor, Fontbonne University Graduate School of Business, 1990

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
  Member
  
  
• The Missouri Bar
  Member
  
  
• American Bar Association, Taxation Section
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• The Estate Planning Council of St. Louis
  
  

Birth Information

• April 1, 1957, St. Louis, Missouri