Doug Siegler, a member of Sutherland's Tax Practice Group, focuses his practice primarily on income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning for individuals. His practice includes not only preparing wills, trust agreements, and related estate-planning documents, but also providing tax and business succession planning advice to owners of closely held businesses. Representative Experience Doug's extensive representative experience includes: · Advising clients on sophisticated transfer tax techniques and the efficient multigenerational transfer of wealth, incorporating gift, insurance and charitable giving programs as appropriate. · Advising on U.S. transfer tax planning for non-U.S. citizens and persons living outside the United States, including special marital deduction issues affecting people married to non-U.S. citizens. · Advising clients on the administration of estates and trusts. · Representing clients in estate and gift tax audits. Professional Honors and Awards · Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of wealth management (2010, 2011) · Selected for inclusion in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Trusts and Estates Practitioners (2009) · Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of trust and estates (2006-2012) · Selected for inclusion in Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers® (2007-2011) Professional and Community Involvement · Past Chair, Estate and Gift Taxes Committee, Tax Section, American Bar Association · Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel · Member and Past Director, District of Columbia Estate Planning Council · Member, Governing Board, St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.) · Former Board Member, The Concord Hill School (Chevy Chase, Maryland) Publications and Speaking Engagements · Author, "Transfers to Noncitizen Spouses," BNA Tax Management Portfolio #842 · Author, "Beware of the GST Tax," Legal Times (February 12, 2007) · Author, "I Want a Do-Over: Section 9100 Relief for Missed Tax Elections," prepared for New York University's Institute on Taxation (2006) · Author, "The Federal Gift and Estate Tax Marital Deduction For Non-United States Citizen Recipient Spouses," 25 Real Property Probate and Trust Journal 385 (Fall 1990) · Speaker, "Estate Planning for Professionals in Unincorporated Service Organizations," ALI-ABA Course in Partnerships, LLCs and LLPs (January 12-13, 2012) · Speaker, "Marital Deduction Planning for Non-Citizen Spouses," ALI-ABA International Trust and Estate Planning (August 2010) · Workshop Presenter (with Lloyd Leva Plaine), "Extensions of Time to Make GST Exemption Allocations," 43rd Annual University of Miami School of Law Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (January 2009) · Speaker, "Planning for Transfers to Non-Citizen Spouses," ALI-ABA International Trust and Estate Planning (September 2008) · Speaker, "Selected Topics in the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax," New York University's Institute on Federal Wealth Taxation (July 2008) · Speaker, "Selected Topics in the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax," Minnesota State Bar Association 34th Annual Probate & Trust Law Section Conference (May 2008) · Speaker, "Render Unto Caesar: Federal Estate Tax Payments-Liability, Timing, Sources, and Payment Options," New York University's Institute on Federal Wealth Taxation (June 2007) · Speaker, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Section 9100 Relief for Missed Tax Elections," 32nd Annual University of Miami School of Law Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (1998) News Guide Lists Sutherland Attorneys Among the Best in the World
July 8, 2011 Nine Sutherland Attorneys Named D.C. Super Lawyers in 2011
May 3, 2011 Sutherland Attorneys, Practices Top Chambers USA 2011 Rankings
April 14, 2011 Sutherland Earns Top Chambers USA 2010 Rankings
July 7, 2010 Congress Ponders Annuity Trusts
June 21, 2010 Eight Sutherland Attorneys Recognized by Washington DC Super Lawyers
March 3, 2010 "Saying 'No Thanks' to a Bequest"
February 18, 2010 Posted with permission The New York Times Twelve Sutherland Attorneys Recognized by Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers ®
April 30, 2009 Legal Alerts Legal Alert: Transfer Tax Changes Opportunities
January 2009 Publications 2011 Trusts and Estates Client Alert
January 25, 2011 Beware of the GST Tax
February 12, 2007 Reprinted with permission, Legal Times Events ALI-ABA Course in Partnerships, LLCs and LLPs
January 12-13, 2012 New York University's Summer Institute in Taxation
July 14-15, 2011 ALI-ABA's International Trust and Estate Planning Course
August 20, 2010 43rd Annual University of Miami School of Law Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
January 2009 ALI-ABA International Trust and Estate Planning
September 2008 New York University's Institute on Federal Wealth Taxation
July 2008 Minnesota State Bar Association 34th Annual Probate & Trust Law Section Conference
May 2008 New York University's Institute on Federal Wealth Taxation
June 2007 32nd Annual University of Miami School of Law Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
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