Scott Bieber

scott@levinschreder.com

Scott focuses his practice in the areas of family wealth preservation, federal transfer taxation, and family business planning. He counsels individuals with their personal estate planning and owners of closely-held businesses with business succession and related issues. Scott represents executors and trustees in the administration of estates and trusts, as well as taxpayers and their executors in gift and estate tax audits. He also advises public and private charitable organizations.

Scott is recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Trust, Will and Estate Planning Law by the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network, is an Illinois Super Lawyer in Estate Planning and Probate, and is also named in Best Lawyers in America in the area of Trusts and Estates.  Before joining the firm in 2010, Scott practiced law at Schiff Hardin LLP.

Publications:
"Trust Severances and Other Planning Under the New Final and Proposed GST
Regulations," Estate Planning, January 2008

Co-Author, "Sell Trust Real Estate? - A Capital Idea if Handled Properly," Estate
Planning, July 2007

"Planning with Grantor Charitable Lead Annuity Trusts," Estate Planning, August 2006

"The Kindest Cut of All - Proposed Regulations For Making Qualified GST
Severances," Estate Planning, March 2005

"Final Split-Dollar Regulations Offer Few Surprises and Little Help," ABA Trusts and Investments, May/June 2004

"Managing the Risk of Liability in an Estate Planning Practice," Estate Planning, August 2003

"Tax Traps and Opportunities," Structure, May 2001

"New Proposed Regulations Explain Permitted Changes to GST Grandfathered Trusts," Estate Planning, March/April 2000

Presentations:
"Top Ten Mistakes in Preparing Gift Tax Returns," presented for the Illinois CPA Society, December 2009

"Recent Developments in Charitable Giving," presented for a program sponsored by McGaw YMCA, June 2009

"Recent Developments in Charitable Giving," presented for the Chicago Planned Giving Counsel, May 2009

"Recent Developments in Estate Planning," presented for the Greater North Shore Estate and Financial Planning Council, March 2009

Education:
J.D., University of Chicago, 1979
B. A., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1976

Admitted:
Illinois, 1979
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Tax Court

Professional Activities:
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel - Fellow
American Bar Association - Member
Chicago Estate Planning Council - Member
Greater North Shore Estate and Financial Planning Council - Member
Estate Planning magazine - Member, Editorial Board