Holland & Knight LLP Expands Trusts and Estates Practice With Acquisition of Preeminent Probate Group; Seven Attorneys Join Los Angeles Office.Business Editors/Legal Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 As part of its continuing strategic expansion, Holland & Knight LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , one of the world's largest and fastest-growing commercial law firms, welcomes to its burgeoning Los Angeles office experienced probate partners Bruce S. Ross, who will co-chair Holland & Knight's national Trust and Estates Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. group, and John T. Rogers John T. Rogers (1882 - 3 March1937) won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. References
or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , Geraldine A. Wyle and Linda Rottman; and associate attorneys Stacie S. Polashuk and Sean K. Higgins. This preeminent group joins Holland & Knight from one of the country's leading probate boutiques, Ross, Sacks & Glazier. With these additions, the firm now boasts twelve attorneys nationwide who are Fellows of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel (ACTEC ACTEC American College of Trust and Estate Counsel ). With these additions, the firm bolsters its position as having the largest Trust and Estates practice in the nation. "The Los Angeles office has been growing tremendously over the past year thanks to successful combinations with Levine & Associates and Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan," said Mark Shipow, executive partner in Los Angeles. "With this recent acquisition, Holland & Knight solidifies its reputation and strength as one of the finest trusts and estates practices in the country. We are immensely pleased to welcome these high-caliber attorneys to our firm -- an example of our continued commitment to strategic expansion and superior legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. ." The firm's national Trusts and Estates Department, chaired by Ed Koren of the Tampa office, consists of more than 90 attorneys. Charlie Gibbs, of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of office, will co-chair the national Trusts and Estates Litigation group with Ross. In addition to this area of practice, the Trusts and Estates Department handles the full range of sophisticated estate and tax planning matters, including marital planning; use of charitable split-interest trusts; personal income tax planning; estate "freezing" or the creation of "discount" entities (both corporate and partnership); life insurance planning; use and administration of domestic and foreign revocable rev·o·ca·ble also re·vok·a·ble adj. That can be revoked: a revocable order; a revocable vote. Adj. 1. and irrevocable trusts; generation-skipping tax planning; lifetime gift programs; and probate and trust administration. About the Attorneys Formerly a name partner with Ross, Sacks & Glazier, Bruce S. Ross is one of the country's leading authorities on trust and estate law and litigation and lectures nationally on estate and trust litigation, professional responsibility and related subjects. He is a certified specialist (California Board of Legal Specialization) in estate planning, trust and probate law. Prior to founding his probate boutique, Ross was a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster. He earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , Boalt Hall School of Law (1971), where he graduated Order of the Coif An unincorporated national scholastic honor society in law. Its purpose is to foster excellence in legal scholarship and to recognize those who have attained high grades in law school or who have distinguished themselves in the teaching of law. and was a member of and note and comment editor for the California Law Review The California Law Review (CLR) is the flagship law review of the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Founded in 1912, the Review was the first student law journal published west of Illinois. The CLR is notable for its exclusively merit-based application process. . Ross is chair of ACTEC's Fiduciary Litigation Committee, former chair of its Professional Responsibility Committee, and a former member of the ACTEC Board of Regents An independent governing body that oversees a state's public Colleges and Universities. All 50 states have governing bodies that oversee the administration of public education. . Ross is also a member of the Supervisory Council of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and a former chair of the Section's Estate and Trust Litigation Committee. A former chair of the California Bar's Section of Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law, Ross is the author of The Rutter Group's California Practice Guide: Probate, the leading textbook on California probate law. Specializing in the administration and taxation of trusts and estates, with an emphasis on fiduciary responsibility and related litigation, John T. Rogers, Jr. has represented fiduciaries (both corporate and individual) and beneficiaries in a variety of highly complex matters. He is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law (California Board of Legal Specialization) and a Fellow of ACTEC. Before joining Ross, Sacks & Glazier in 1996, Rogers was a partner in the Trusts and Estates Department of Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian. He holds a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. School of Law (1981), where he was the managing editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal. Rogers is a former chair of the Trust and Estates Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and co-author, with Ross, of The Rutter Group's upcoming publication, California Practice Guide: Trust Administration and Litigation. Prior to joining Ross, Sacks & Glazier, Jeryll S. Cohen practiced with the Los Angeles office of Rogers & Wells, where she specialized in securities regulatory work with an emphasis on insider trading issues. Her current practice emphasizes probate and trust administration, estate planning, conservatorships and general corporate matters. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola Law School Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit school in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (separate and unaffiliated (1986). Geraldine A. Wyle practiced at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Valensi, Rose & Magaram, prior to joining Ross, Sacks & Glazier. Her practice emphasizes estate and trust litigation and administration, with past experience in general business litigation. She also has extensive appellate experience. Wyle received her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (1979). Linda Rottman is an experienced trial attorney and has specialized in complex litigation matters. Her current concentration is on trust and estate litigation. Rottman received her J.D. from Marquette Law School (1978). Before joining Ross, Sacks & Glazier, Stacie S. Polashuk practiced as a litigation attorney with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Los Angeles. She received her J.D. from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission School of Law (1996). Sean K. Higgins joined Ross, Sacks & Glazier from McDermott, Will & Emery. He received his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Order of the Coif (1997). Holland & Knight is a commercial law firm with more than 1,250 lawyers in 24 offices in the United States. Internationally, offices are located in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r , Sao Paulo, Mexico City and Tokyo, with representative offices in Caracas and Tel Aviv. Holland & Knight is among the 20 largest law firms worldwide, providing legal representation in more than 100 areas of law. www.hklaw.com.
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