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Florida
Tax: Estate Planning (Band 1)Profile
Practice Areas: Estate planning, asset protection, probate administration, tax law, corporate/partnership/LLC/business law, special needs trusts.
Professional Memberships: Chairman, Asset Protection Committee, member of the Business Planning Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC); Adjunct Professor 1998-2009, University of Miami School of Law LLM, Taxation; Founding Chairman 2004-07, current Committee Member Asset Preservation Committee of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section The Florida Bar; Past President, Greater Miami Tax Institute; Member Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA); Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus, The Victory Center for Autism and Behavioral Challenges; Co-Founder & Previous Chairman, National Ambassadors, American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science; Mayor Town of Golden Beach, 1993-95.
Career: Florida Bar Board Certified Tax and Wills and Trusts and Estates Attorney; listed consecutively, Best Lawyers in America since 1995; recognized as top lawyer by South Florida Legal Guide since 2005 and Florida Super Lawyers since 2006.
Publications: Mr. Nelson has presented for the University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, the Southern Federal Tax Institute, ACTEC, FICPA and the Florida Bar. He has published articles in numerous professional journals. He introduced, coordinated and co-authored with Florida Bar committee members a treatise entitled Asset Protection in Florida (Florida Bar CLE 2008).
Personal: State University of New York at Binghamton, BS, Magna Cum Laude, 1974 and MS, Accounting, 1975. University of Miami, JD, Cum Laude, 1981 and LLM, Taxation, 1987. Mr Nelson has four children and lives in Golden Beach, Florida with his wife, Judith.