Byrle M. Abbin, C.P.A. and J.D., is a nationally known authority in Federal taxation, specializing in estate planning matters, specifically wealth succession planning and family business continuity for those with significant high personal worth. These activities involve technical expertise in gift, estate and generation skipping taxes, and income taxation of fiduciaries and beneficiaries. He has authored in excess of sixty papers featured in major tax journals, as well as tax conference and institute proceedings. He has appeared in excess of one hundred fifty occasions as a guest speaker at all major tax and estate planning conferences, with an emphasis on thirty presentations before the American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) large estates course, and a number of presentations and workshops at the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning Institute, the premier estate planning conference in the United States, and on whose advisory board he has been active for twenty eight years. In addition, Byrle has served over thirty years on various technical committees and task forces of the American Institute of CPAs. His leadership resulted in a multi-disciplinary group of the American Bar Association, American Bankers Association, and the AICPA drafting simplification and relief legislation with regard to generation skipping tax that was enacted into law by the EGTRRA of 2001.

Other conferences and institutes in which Byrle has participated as a speaker are the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the New York University Tax Institute, the South California Tax and Estate Planning Forum (frequent occasions, the last being in 1999), the University of Chicago Federal Tax Conference, the Great Plains Federal Tax Conference, the Heart of America Tax Conference, the Southern Federal Tax Conference, the University of Virginia Federal Tax Conference (a number of times), and two prestigious tax policy meetings: the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the Brookings Institution Conference on Tax Policy, Washington, D.C. Additionally, he has spoken at a myriad of local and regional estate planning council meetings, AICPA and state CPA tax conferences, and training seminars.

Byrle is the author of a most successful treatise, "Income Taxation of Fiduciaries and Beneficiaries" (Panel Publishers /CCH)) that is in its tenth edition, and co-authored and edited a two volume treatise, "The Corporate AMT" (published by CCH). Recently he was a co-author and editor of "Tax Economics of Charitable Giving" (published by Warrren, Gorham & Lamont). He currently is on the editorial advisory board of Estate Planning and Tax Management's Estates and Gifts and Trust Journal - two of the major tax journals emphasizing estate planning. Prior activities include acting as a Director of the American Council for Capital Formation, Tax Council, National Association of Estate Planning Councils, and Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (of which he also acted as Chairman). He was Chair of the AICPA Consumption Tax Task Force that issued a definitive study, "Flat Tax and Consumption Taxes: The Guide to the Debate." For a number of years, he served on the National Conference of Lawyers and CPAs - a joint effort of the ABA and AICPA.

Byrle was awarded the Elijah Watts Sells Gold Medal by the American Institute of CPAs for writing the best examination in the nationwide CPA examination in November, 1959. In October, 2001 he was presented the Arthur J. Dixon Award, the accounting profession's highest award for tax service, recognizing a "Career of Service with Distinction in the Field of Taxation." He received his B.B.A. with Distinction from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Byrle retired as a partner of the firm of Arthur Andersen in 1993. While at Andersen, he was Managing Director, Tax Competence (firmwide) twice, and founder and Managing Director of the Office of Federal Tax Services.