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Louis B. GenevaOf Counsel
Experience
• Tax Consultant with emphasis on Estate Planning and Probate Law
• More than 35 years tax consulting to wide variety of clients
• Litigated tax cases before the Tax Court, the Northern Ohio Federal District Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
Background
• Former instructor in the Graduate Tax Program at New York University School of Law
• Awarded Emeritus status at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where he taught taxation courses for 30 years
• 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Super Lawyer
Memberships & Associations
• Director and Board Vice-Chair, Community Fund Management Foundation
• Director and Board President, Thea Bowman Center
• Director and Treasurer, William H. Thomas Foundation
• Director and President, George Strickland Scholarship Fund
• Director and Treasurer, Beacon Street
• Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section; Estate Planning Institute Curriculum Committee
• American Bar Association, Taxation and Real Property, Trust & Estate Law and Taxation Sections
Publications & Presentations
Lou writes and speaks extensively on topics of interest in the Estate Tax and Probate areas:
• Family Limited Partnerships
• Estate Planning for Closely Held Businesses
• Succession Planning
• Installment Sales, GRATs, QPRTs and Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts
• Generation Skipping Tax Planning
Education
• Miami University, B.A., with honors, 1969
• Suffolk University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1973
• New York University, LL.M. (advanced degree in Taxation), 1973
