Frank Fogl

Mr. Fogl's primary areas of practice are focused on protecting and preserving clients' personal an business assets. 

These areas include estate planning, business planning and consultation, and debt relief.  Within these areas, the services provided by Mr. Fogl include:

• Preparation of wills and trusts, including:  testamentary credit shelter trusts; QTIP trusts; minor's trusts; Crummey trusts; irrevocable life insurance trusts; charitable remainder unitrusts; grantor-retained income and annuity trusts; and similar instruments effectuating the lifetime and testamentary transfer of assets.

• Preparation of durable and specialized powers of attorney and living wills.

• Estate and succession planning for family businesses.

• Business planning and formation; maintenance of corporate minute books and records; corporate mergers and acquisitions; private placements of securities; and preparation and review of various business contracts, including:  partnership agreements; shareholders' agreements; employment agreements; lease agreements; independent contractor agreements; office sharing agreements; asset or stock purchase agreements; and other agreements integral to the operation and succession of a business enterprise.

• Loan workouts; settlement of tax claims; and individual or business bankruptcy filings under Chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Background

Mr. Fogl received his Juris Doctor degree from the Duquesne University School of Law and has been a practicing attorney in Pennsylvania since 1989.  He has also completed 30 credit hours toward obtaining a Master of Business Administration degree from the Pennsylvania State University.  Mr. Fogl is a part-time instructor of a course entitled "Debtors Rights and Creditors Remedies" at the Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College, and has lectured on numerous estate planning and bankruptcy topics for local and regional groups.  Mr. Fogl is an active member of the Bankruptcy and Business and Banking Committees of the Erie County Bar Association, and the Business Law Division of the American Bar Association.  He also serves on the boards a various non-profit and civic organizations.

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Agresti & Agresti
319 West Tenth Street
Erie, PA. 16502

Lawrence J. Arem

Concentration of Practice:  Federal Tax Law, Estate Planning, Corporate Law.

Born:  Brooklyn, New York, February 2, 1950;

Admitted: To bar, 1975, Pennsylvania; 1977, U.S. Tax Court.

Education: New York University (B.S., 1972; LL.M., 1978); University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1975).

Author: "Taxation of Low Interest Loans," ABA Presidential Showcase Program (1985); "Multiple Trust Planning," 11Estate Planning 8 (1984); "Tax Benefits of Research and Development Expenses Increased by New Credit," 10Taxation for Lawyers 208 (1982).

Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.

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Klehr, Harrison, Harvey
260 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19102-3163

Mark L. Silow

Mark's practice involves a broad range of commercial and tax matters, including business and tax planning, corporate acquisitions and dispositions, real estate transactions, estate planning and employee benefits. A member of the Executive Committee, Mark also serves as Chairman of the Firm's Tax & Estates Department and Employee Benefits Law Practice Group.

He has written and lectured extensively on many of these subjects and served as a member of the Mayor's Private Sector Task Force on Insurance and Employee Benefits. He authors a regular column on tax and estate matters in The Legal Intelligencer.

Mark has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Please Touch Museum, is president of the Friends of Logan Square Foundation, is chairman of the Legal and Tax Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, is a past president of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association and the Greene Towne School.

Mark graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, from Temple University School of Law with a J.D. in 1978 and from New York University School of Law with an L.L.M. (Taxation) in 1980.

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Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel
2000 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19103

Keith Barrows

About Keith Barrows

As the founder and sole shareholder in the central Pennsylvania law firm that bears his name, Barrows oversees a practice devoted to providing clients with the best in estate planning. As founder of one of the fastest growing estate planning practices in the area, he is frequently sought out by attorneys and financial professionals who want his advice on how to build estate planning practices of their own.

Because of Keith's commitment to the professionals who rely on him for expertise, Keith regularly conducts professional education programs for financial professionals interested in building their own knowledge base about complex estate planning issues.

Professional Experience

Today, Keith is a widely acclaimed speaker and seminar leader on topics ranging from basic estate planning to advanced topics like business planning, charitable giving, and asset preservation.

Keith offers free seminars to the public on a regular basis, seeking to educate the general public about their estate planning choices. Keith champions the use of the living trust as an cost-effective way to plan an estate while maintaining client privacy and reducing estate taxes where possible.

Keith also offers estate planning seminars to individuals and groups on advanced wealth preservation strategies. His seminars are informative and easy to understand. Keith served as an attorney in the United States Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1994 to 1998. He founded his estate planning practice in October 1998. Keith is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of The American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys.

Education

Keith graduated from Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in political science and music.

He then attended Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree, graduating cum laude in 1994. Keith was a member of the editorial board for the law review and also served as a member of the school's national moot court competition team.

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The Barrows Law Firm, P.C
25 West Third Street, Suite 400
Williamsport, PA 17701

Mark R. Parthemer

Concentration:
Trusts and Estates; Business Succession Planning; Estate Administration; Estate Planning; Federal Taxation

Admitted to bar:
1987, Pennsylvania; 1993, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania

Education:
Franklin & Marshall College (B.A. & B.S., 1983); Dickinson School of Law (J.D., 1987). Member: Irvin R. Kaufman Securities Law Moot Court Team.

Member:
Pennsylvania Estates Planning Council, 1988—; Pennsylvania Bar Institute Faculty, 1994—; Dauphin County (Member, Estate Section), Pennsylvania (Member, Trust and Probate Section) and American (Member, Tax and Business Law Sections) Bar Associations; Central Pennsylvania Business Leaders

Additional:
Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award; James S. Bowman Pennsylvania Practice Award

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McNees, Wallace & Nurick
Mark R. Parthemer
100 Pine Street, PO Box 1166
Harrisburg, PA. 17108

The Law Firm of Goehring, Rutter & Boehm
has four (4) professionals to help serve your needs.

Robert J. Winters

A shareholder with the firm, Bob is chairman of the firm's Estate Department and focuses his practice in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, and business law.

Practice Areas:

Estate Planning: All aspects of estate and gift tax planning and preparation of estate planning documents, including Wills, Revocable Living Trusts, Insurance Trusts, Personal Residence Trusts, Generation-Skipping Trusts, Split Ownership Trusts, Charitable Trusts, and Family Limited Partnerships.

Trust and Estate Administration: Representing and advising individual and corporate trustees and personal representatives in administration of trusts and estates, including related tax planning and fiduciary income tax matters.

Business Law: General corporate matters, principally involving closely held businesses, including formation and operation of regular corporations, S-corporations, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies and business trusts; business succession planning; joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions; contracts.

Professional Associations:

National Lawyer Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association (Probate & Trust Law, Corporation & Business Law, and Tax Law Sections)
Allegheny County Bar Association (Probate & Trust, Taxation and Corporate Commercial Law Sections)
Estate Planning Council of Pittsburgh

Education:

University of Pennsylvania Law School (JD, 1978)
University of Pittsburgh (BA, 1975)

Lea E. Anderson

Lea focuses her practice on serving the needs of individual and small corporate clients. Additionally, she is involved in valuation and distribution of marital estates from the divorce and estate planning and administrative perspectives. She routinely consults on labor and personnel matters for small businesses, including employment contracts, handbook and personnel policy issues. She also defends and mediates labor and discrimination charges before the PHRC and EEOC.

In addition to representing clients in Pennsylvania, Lea is licensed in West Virginia and represents corporate clients there.
A member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, where she has held various officer positions, she is also a member of the Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. Lea is very active in local civic activities as well as recently being the Chairman of the University of West Virginia Visiting Committee on Student Affairs.

Lea received her JD Degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1979 and her BA Degree (magna cum laude) in 1976 also from the West Virginia.

Michael K. Parrish

Mr. Parrish concentrates his practice in the areas of probate, estate planning, real estate and corporate law. His corporate clients are generally closely-held corporations.

A significant portion of his practice is also devoted to counseling and representing individuals in real estate, estate planning, probate, trusts, guardianship, and general matters. Currently he also represents individuals and municipalities in eminent domain matters.

Education:

Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Business Administration 1979
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D. 1984

Wendy Denton Heleen

Wendy has practiced in the areas of estate and trust planning and estate administration since joining Goehring, Rutter & Boehm in 1992. She brings a wealth of experience to her practice having previously served as a trust administration officer at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh for five years.

Wendy counsels clients of all ages and, frequently, multiple generations of families, in planning for the distribution of assets in light of estate tax and specific family concerns, including trusts for minor or disabled beneficiaries. When a death occurs, she advises the decedent's family members on estate administration procedures, including the preparation of death tax returns and the establishment of trusts.

Wendy received her JD Degree with honors in 1994 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers. She received her undergraduate degree (BS) from Bucknell University, magna cum laude, in 1984 where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations and is a frequent lecturer on estate planning topics. She serves on the Allegheny County Bar Association's Probate and Trust Law Section Council.

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Goehring, Rutter & Boehm
1424 Frick Building
Pittsburgh, PA. 15219