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Award
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Ronald D. Aucutt
McGuireWoods, LLPRonald D. Aucutt is a partner
in the McLean, Virginia (Tysons Corner) office of McGuireWoods
LLP and is the chair of the firm's Private Wealth Services
Group. Mr. Aucutt concentrates on planning and controversy
matters involving the estate, gift, and generation-skipping
transfer taxes, the income taxation of trusts and estates, the
rules regarding tax-exempt organizations and charitable
contributions, and related tax issues. He has extensive
experience in assisting clients with the transfer of wealth
from one generation to another, particularly including the
orderly and tax-efficient succession of family-owned
businesses. He also advises lawyers and other professionals on
tax planning and controversy issues across the entire spectrum
of estate planning and charitable giving, including the
complex rules governing generation-skipping transfers under
chapter 13 and the special valuation rules under chapter 14 of
the Internal Revenue Code. Mr. Aucutt is experienced in
resolving tax issues through rulings and technical advice in
the Internal Revenue Service's National Office and in
administrative appeals throughout the country. He has
contributed to the formation of estate tax policy through
legislation and has served as an expert witness in estate and
gift tax matters.
Mr. Aucutt is a Fellow and former President of the American
College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), an academician of
the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and former
member of its Executive Council, a former Vice Chair
(Committee Operations) of the American Bar Association's
Section of Taxation, the Liaison from the Section of Taxation
to the Probate and Trust Division of the Section of Real
Property, Probate and Trust Law, a Fellow of the American
College of Tax Counsel and the American Bar Foundation, the
Moderator of the Evangelical Free Church of America, and a
member of the Christian Legal Society. He is also a member of
the Advisory Committee of the University of Miami Philip E.
Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the Editorial Board
of Estate Planning, the Board of Advisors of
Business Entities, Tax Management's Advisory Board on
Estates, Gifts, and Trusts, and the Editorial Advisory Board
of Shannon Pratt's Business Valuation UpdateŽ. He was
awarded the 1995-1996 Estate Planner of the Year Award by the
Washington, D.C. Estate Planning Council and was named one of
"Washington's 50 Best Lawyers" in the February 1997 issue of
Washingtonian magazine, one of the 45 "Best Trusts and
Estates Lawyers in the U.S." in the August 1998 issue of
Town & Country magazine, a "Top Washington Lawyer" in the
September 10-16, 2004 issue of the Washington Business
Journal, and one of the twelve "Top Trusts and Estates
Lawyers" of the Washington, D.C. area in the September 27,
2004 issue of Legal Times. His biography appears in
Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law,
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the
World, and The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Aucutt received a B.A. degree in 1967 and a J.D. degree
in 1975, both from the University of Minnesota. He has been a
lecturer in law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
He has lectured on estate planning subjects at over one
hundred tax institutes and conferences nationwide and is the
author of more than fifty published articles on estate
planning and other tax subjects. Mr. Aucutt is co-author of
Structuring Estate Freezes, published by Warren, Gorham &
Lamont in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1996.
Ron and his wife Bunny live in Falls Church, Virginia. They
have two sons; David graduated from Wheaton College in
Wheaton, Illinois, in 2005 and is a high school teacher and
football coach in Chicago. Jamie graduated from Wheaton in May
2008 and is considering graduate school. |