Valentina's practice concentrates on estate planning, wealth management, and estate and trust administration for high net worth individuals and families. In this capacity, she executes estate planning objectives that minimize clients' estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax liability. Valentina's practice also includes general corporate and litigation matters. As a trusts and estates attorney, Valentina works with clients throughout the estate planning process. Valentina regularly drafts wills, revocable trust agreements, and disability planning documents effectuating clients' estate planning objectives and sheltering client assets from death taxes. She advises clients on funding their revocable trusts, provides recommendations regarding the distribution of assets not governed by will, and serves as a liaison with clients' financial advisors to implement these recommendations. She also handles the administration of irrevocable life insurance trusts and decedents' estates in Virginia and Maryland. Valentina also works on general corporate matters, with a focus on worker misclassification issues. She regularly works with a publicly traded corporation, and serves as counsel at the corporation's quarterly Board of Director meetings. In her capacity as litigation counsel, Valentina researches and drafts dispositive motions and supporting memoranda for filing in state and federal courts in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Valentina was the on-site lead for an initial document and data collection, and appeared in court as local counsel for the unsecured creditors committee in conjunction with a large corporation's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Areas of Concentration ˇ Sophisticated estate planning ˇ Estate and trust administration ˇ Worker misclassification employment and tax issues Professional & Community Involvement ˇ Member, American Bar Association Section of Taxation ˇ Member, District of Columbia Bar Estates Trusts & Probate Section Awards & Recognition ˇ Affiliated Member of Madison Who's Who 2010 Articles, Publications, & Lectures ˇ Speaker, Capital Fiduciary Advisors Seminar, Estate Planning Basics: What You Need to Know (April 6, 2011) ˇ Co-Author, "Contracting on the Battlefield: Legal Issues that Every Security or Intelligence Contractor Should Address," The Intelligencer |