Estate planning attorneys, trust officers and wealth-management professionals will gather online May 3-6, 2021 for the first virtual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, a division of the University of Miami School of Law, the largest such gathering of its kind in the world.
Now in its 55th year, the nation's leading conference is for estate planners, trust officers, accountants, insurance advisors and wealth management professionals and offers a comprehensive immersion into the latest estate-planning techniques and strategies. It is organized typically as an in-person every January, and this May the stellar program will still attract 2,500+ attendees in this latest edition offered virtually to safeguard the health and well-being of its constituents.
New Proposed Tax Legislation Just one of Many Program Highlights
The May program will offer complete coverage of the recent developments from 2020 and early 2021, including the potential impact of the recent elections, and the planning implications of the recently proposed tax. It will also include:
- Practical Guidance on Today's Most Significant Tax and Non-tax Planning Issues: Included will be planning for the increasingly important interplay among wealth transfer tax, income tax, and investment planning.
- Recent Developments and Question and Answer Panel: Presented by four of the nation’s leading estate planning experts, these programs will provide practical guidance on planning effectively in today’s evolving legal and economic environment including the potential impact and planning opportunities presented by proposed or anticipated tax legislation.
- Strategic Planning for Another Year of Change: How to take advantage of the “bonus” transfer tax exemptions and overcome planning inertia, using preferred partnerships to shift growth between family members, and evaluating and fortifying existing planning structures.
- Solutions to Income Tax Pitfalls in Estate Planning: Review the income tax concepts that are fundamental to estate planning, including issues involved in modifying or terminating trusts, creating private annuities, changing trust ownership for income tax purposes, planning with charitable trusts, promissory notes, installment sales, transactions between spouses, basis shifting, and upstream planning.
- Planning for Retirement Benefits After the SECURE Act: How to plan in the post-SECURE world including trust drafting guidelines, new trust administration challenges, and the key features of fiduciary income tax that planners must understand.
- Diversity, Culture and Ethics in Estate Planning: Learn how various faiths think about estate planning and the ethical implications of considering faith, culture and diversity when working with clients.
Networking Still Strong Component of Event
Although attendees will miss seeing each other in person, this year’s event will still enable attendees to enjoy valuable networking and professional development opportunities unique to the nation's largest gathering of estate planning professionals.
This will include a fully online virtual exhibit hall dedicated entirely to the estate planning industry as well as a schedule with multiple opportunities for networking built into the four-day event.
The Nation’s Leading Experts Make Up the Institute’s Faculty
Steve R. Akers
Bessemer Trust, Dallas, Texas
N. Todd Angkatavanich
Ernst & Young LLP, Hartford, Connecticut
John F. Bergner
Winstead PC, Dallas, Texas
Turney P. Berry
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP, Louisville, Kentucky
Jeff Chadwick
Winstead PC, The Woodlands, Texas
Natalie B. Choate
Nutter McClennen & Fish, Boston, Massachusetts
Samuel A. Donaldson
Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
Jeremiah W. Doyle, IV
BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Boston, Massachusetts
Dana G. Fitzsimons Jr.
Bessemer Trust, Atlanta, Georgia
Robert B. Fleming
Fleming & Curti, PLC, Tucson, Arizona
Michelle Graham
Withers Bergman LLP, San Diego, California
Carol A. Harrington
McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Chicago, Illinois
Christopher R. Hoyt
University of Missouri School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri
Sarah Moore Johnson
Birchstone Moore LLC, Washington, D.C.
Bernard A. Krooks
Littman Krooks LLP, New York, New York
Julie Miraglia Kwon
McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Menlo Park, California
Melissa Langa
Bove & Langa, Boston, Massachusetts
Paul S. Lee
Northern Trust, New York, New York
Margaret G. Lodise
Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise LLP, Los Angeles, California
Carlyn S. McCaffrey
McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, New York
Tara Anne Pleat
Wilcenski & Pleat PLLC, Clifton Park, New York
Charles A. "Clary" Redd
Stinson LLP, St. Louis, Missouri
Michael Rosen-Prinz
McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Los Angeles, California
Gideon Rothschild
Moses & Singer LLP, New York, New York
Daniel S. Rubin
Moses & Singer LLP, New York, New York
Stacy E. Singer
Northern Trust, Chicago, Illinois
Robert H. Sitkoff
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Akane R. Suzuki
Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington
Melissa J. Willms
Davis & Willms, PLLC, Houston, Texas
Lauren J. Wolven
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, Chicago, Illinois
Diana S.C. Zeydel
Greenberg Traurig, Miami, Florida
The 55th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning will be held on May 3-6, 2021.
More on the 55th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
More on studying estate planning at Miami Law
