David W. Reinecke is a senior partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Reinecke is the chair of Foley's nationwide Tax & Individual Planning Practice. He is also a member of the firm's Estates & Trusts and Taxation Practices. Mr. Reinecke counsels and represents individuals and businesses in matters relating to tax and estate planning, business succession planning, marital property planning, the creation and administration of trusts, and probate administration. In addition, he represents individuals and businesses involved in adversarial proceedings with the Internal Revenue Service and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.
Mr. Reinecke is the chair for the Board of Governors for the Madison Community Foundation. He is also the chair for the Board of Directors of St. Mary's Foundation. Mr. Reinecke serves on numerous other boards, for both non-profit and for-profit entities.
As adjunct professor of law at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School for more than ten years, Mr. Reinecke taught advanced courses in drafting marital property agreements, estate planning, estates and trusts, taxation, general practice and legal writing. He lectures extensively all over the country and has published two books and numerous articles on estate planning and taxation in several national publications. One of his most recent publications is a book entitled Maximizing the Value of Trusts & Estates.
Mr. Reinecke is the past president of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Wisconsin State Bar. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), where he served for ten years as the state chair. He is also the past chair of ACTEC's Wisconsin Membership Selection Committee and serves on its Estate and Gift Tax Committee. Mr. Reinecke served as the chairperson for the Wisconsin Probate Code Committee, which recently completed a rewrite of Wisconsin's Probate Code. Mr. Reinecke is a member of the Madison Estate Planning Council and the Madison Planned Charitable Giving Council.
Mr. Reinecke has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America®. He also has been named 2010 Madison Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America. Based on exhaustive peer-review surveys, attorneys honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings for their abilities, professionalism and integrity. Mr. Reinecke has been named to The Best Estate Planning Attorneys in America® for the last 15 years. He also is included in Who's Who in American Law, and has been selected for inclusion in the 2005 - 2011 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists as well as recognized in the Legal 500 for his work in domestic tax: central.
Mr. Reinecke coauthored the recent article, "Time Runs Out on Wisconsin's Estate Tax," featured in the December 2007 issue of Wisconsin Lawyer.
Mr. Reinecke is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin.