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Gordon A. Schaller

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Partner
Office Managing Partner, Orange County
GSchaller@JMBM.com
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Orange County

3 Park Plaza,
Suite 1100
Irvine, California 92614

Main: 949.623.7200
Direct: 949.623.7222
Fax: 949.623.7202
Cara Garmon
Assistant
949.623.7223
Cg4@JMBM.com
Main BioPersonal Bio

Mr. Schaller is a prominent tax and estate planning attorney in Southern California who has been in practice for over 30 years. Gordon focuses his practice on tax, estate planning, business succession, charitable and wealth management services and trust and estate litigation. He has represented individuals, family offices, and numerous public and private charitable organizations. Gordon provides creative solutions for tax, charitable, business succession and family issues. He has a specialty in the use of captive insurance companies for business and estate planning purposes, and has written and spoken frequently on this topic. He is well known throughout the country for developing comprehensive, integrated multi-generational wealth planning, preservation, insurance and management solutions. Gordon is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

Representative Experience:

  • Wealth transfer planning integrating innovative financial, estate and tax structures
  • Creation and implementation of numerous tax advantaged strategies to facilitate diversification of concentrated wealth
  • Advisor to numerous financial service, investment and insurance firms in creating innovative client and industry strategies
  • Use of captive insurance structures for uninsured risks combined with related estate planning and business succession planning
  • Creation of business process and technology solutions to aggregate and integrate client financial, estate, tax and investment information
  • Advising founders of numerous public and private companies on estate planning, business succession planning, financial and liquidity planning
  • Represented multiple generations of family members who own major real estate and other business interests on all aspects of ownership, operation and disposition
Education

J.D., 1973, magna cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School

B.S., 1970, with distinction, Iowa State University

PracticesTaxation, Trusts & Estates, Trust & Estate Litigation, Family Office

IndustriesBanking & Financial Services

Associations
  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
Awards &
Recognition
  • Listed, Los Angeles Magazine's Southern California Super Lawyer, 2006-'07, '09-'12
  • Recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America® for 2012
  • Listed, Worth Magazine's Top 100 Attorneys, 2006
  • Staff Editor, Minnesota Law Review
  • Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review, AV Rating
Bar Admissions

Washington

U.S. Tax Court

Speaking
Engagements
06/02/11 - 06/05/112011 Annual Meeting of the California Independent Petroleum Association: Captive Insurance
05/01/11 - 05/04/11Association for Advanced Life Underwriting Annual Meeting: Captive Insurance
 
Articles
03/06/12Steve Leimberg's Estate Planning Newsletter: Why Last Chance Estate Planning May End Soon
02/13/12"Last Chance" Estate Planning May End Soon
10/12/11Captive Insurance for Agribusiness
Newsletters
10/28/11JMBM Tax Newsletter Fall 2011
05/02/11JMBM Tax Newsletter Spring 2011
07/01/09JMBM Tax Newsletter Summer 2009
Press Releases
01/23/122012 Top Attorneys In Southern California - Nineteen JMBM Attorneys Recognized as Super Lawyers
 

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