CLEVELAND, OH—October 6, 2010—Baker Hostetler announced today an expansion of its Tax and Wealth Management practice with the addition of four attorneys in its Cleveland office who were most recently with Jones Day’s trust and estate planning practice.
Joining Baker Hostetler are Lisa Roberts-Mamone, Ellen Halfon, Joseph Korpics and Joseph Verciglio. They join the firm’s 80 lawyer tax and wealth management practice, which ranks among the top ten firms nationwide.
“The addition of these four outstanding attorneys to our experienced team of Cleveland-based and national private wealth attorneys will benefit the clients of the firm and further strengthen our Tax and Wealth Management capabilities,” said Hewitt Shaw, Managing Partner of the firm’s Cleveland office and former national chair of its Tax Group. “We understand the importance of trust and continuity in working with family owned or controlled business and high net worth individuals, and we look forward to establishing that level of trust and personal counsel with those clients who choose to join the valued clients who work with Baker Hostetler.”
Baker Hostetler has always been committed to its private wealth, trusts and estates practice, beginning in 1919 when the firm was hired by E.W. Scripps to create a will and trust for the publishing magnate. “Baker Hostetler remains strongly committed to its tax and wealth management practice, and we are pleased that Lisa, Ellen, Joe and Joe are joining our firm,” said Paul M. Schmidt, national Tax Group chair. “Each one of these talented attorneys brings tremendous experience and expands our ability to serve the increasingly sophisticated needs of clients, from entrepreneurs and closely held and family businesses to high net worth individuals and tax exempt organizations.”
“The addition of these talented attorneys in Cleveland reflects the firm’s continuing strategy of smart growth, said Steven Kestner, national Executive Partner for Baker Hostetler. “Across all of our offices, we have the breadth and depth of experience to deliver the highest quality legal counsel to clients on their significant legal matters.”
Roberts-Mamone comes to Baker Hostetler after 22 years with Jones Day and brings broad experience in advising multigenerational families on a wide variety of planning issues. Her primary areas of practice include sophisticated lifetime and testamentary planning, complex trust administration and fiduciary advice, as well as business succession planning and prenuptial planning. She will be a partner at the firm.
Halfon joins Baker Hostetler after 23 years with Jones Day, bringing extensive experience providing estate planning and estate administration advice for high net worth clients, with an emphasis on charitable planning, as well as establishing and advising tax exempt organizations regarding all aspects of their organization, operation and tax compliance.
Korpics handles a wide variety of estate planning activities, including the interests of family held partnerships and limited liability companies.
Verciglio focuses on trusts and estates, including gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. He works with high net worth individuals and families on a variety of matters, including gifting, general lifetime planning and business succession planning. He also has experience in estate and trust administration.
About Baker HostetlerFounded over 90 years ago in 1916, Baker Hostetler is among the nation’s 100 largest law firms with over 650 attorneys coast to coast. The firm has offices in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its five primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Tax. For more information, visit the firm’s Web site at www.bakerlaw.com.
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