Neil E. Cass advises clients on a broad variety of estate planning and estate and trust administration matters, including family limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts, personal residence trusts, private foundations, supporting organizations and developing ownership succession plans. He has also advised a variety of charitable organizations and individual and corporate trustees on a broad range of trust administration issues. Mr. Cass is a member of the American, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, Maryland and District of Columbia bar associations and the Chicago Estate Planning Council. A certified public accountant, he is a 1980 graduate of the University of Miami School of Law (LL.M., estate planning), a 1977 graduate of The University of Iowa College of Law, a 1977 graduate of The University of Iowa, where he received an MBA degree, and a 1974 graduate of the University of Puget Sound. Areas of Practice · Estate Planning and Administration · Trust Administration · Closely Held Businesses Representative Matters · Reorganized a professional sports franchise to freeze the value for multiple generations. · Assisted clients in organizing, funding and operating numerous grantor-retained annuity trusts and personal residence trusts. · Assisted clients in organizing, funding and operating numerous family limited partnerships. · Assisted clients in making sales to "defective" grantor trusts. · Defended valuation discounts before the IRS. · Advised clients in connection with estate and trust litigation, including a trust holding more than one billion dollars in assets. · Advised clients regarding all aspects of estate and trust administration. · Advised clients in connection with obtaining private letter rulings from the IRS. · Developed business-succession plans and drafted complicated buy-sell agreements. · Assisted hundreds of clients to develop their estate plans and drafted the documents to implement them. · Counseled clients regarding estate planning, estate administration, trust administration, contested estate and trust matters, charitable giving, the creation and administration of charitable entities, ownership succession and closely-held business matters. Professional Activities · American Bar Association · Illinois State Bar Association · Iowa State Bar Association · State Bar of Wisconsin · Pennsylvania State Bar Association · Maryland State Bar Association · District of Columbia Bar Association · Chicago Estate Planning Council Experience · Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2000-present · Jenner & Block, Chicago, Illinois
- Partner, 1989-2000 · Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Illinois Board Memberships · Board of Trustees of Flossmoor, Illinois, 1985-1989 · Baccalaureate Trust Authority of the State of Illinois, 1988-1989 Honors and Awards · Since 2006, named to"Leading Lawyers" list for Illinois, a statewide list of attorneys recommended by their peers · AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ and BV® Distinguished™ are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Selected Publications · Co-Author, "New Internal Revenue Code Chapter Fourteen Replaces Section 2036(c)," Illinois Bar Journal, October 1991 · Co-Author, "A New Burden for Fiduciaries," Trust and Estates, August 1987 · A Primer on Estate Planning Selected Speaking Engagements · Speaker at numerous estate planning seminars and tax seminars (Also at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Office) |