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JAMES S. AUSSEM is a partner with Cavitch Familo & Durkin Co., LPA, and focuses his practice primarily in succession planning, business and estates and trusts. His extensive background includes helping closely-held businesses with mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as complex tax issues. Mr. Aussem is a sought-after speaker, facilitator and instructor for many professional organizations on topics such as business succession, estate planning, insurance and trusts and estates. He has spoken at the Cleveland Estate Planning Institute, the AICPA Advanced Planning Institute, the Cleveland Tax Institute, the Ohio Accounting Show, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Northern Ohio Planned Giving Day. Active in many civic and professional organizations, Mr. Aussem is a director of the Cleveland Society of Financial Service Professionals, serving as its president for the year 2010-2011, and serves on the Planned Giving Committees of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the American Cancer Society and Baldwin-Wallace College, which in 2004 presented him with its Distinguished Alumni Award. He also is a member of the American, Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan bar associations, and the Estate Planning Council of Cleveland. Mr. Aussem was listed as an Ohio Super Lawyer in 2005 and 2006, and was chosen as One of America's Best Lawyers for 2010 and 2011. He earned his B.A. degree from Baldwin-Wallace College and his J.D. degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. J. PAUL FIDLER is a partner with the Cleveland law firm of Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney & LaFond P.L.L. His practice emphasizes estate planning and administration, trust administration, income taxation of estates, trusts and individuals, planning for charitable gifts and foundations, and business succession planning. Mr. Fidler is a member of the Cleveland Estate Planning Council. He has lectured on estate planning topics to business and legal professionals. Mr. Fidler is a member of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section of the Ohio State Bar Association. He also is a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Fidler earned his B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. degree from The Ohio State University. JOHN S. KAMINSKI is an attorney in the Canton-based law firm of Day Ketterer Ltd., which also has offices in Cleveland, Hudson and Carrollton. Mr. Kaminski focuses his practice on estate planning, special needs planning, elder law, probate and trust administration, and probate litigation. He was named an Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2010 by Law & Politics magazine. Mr. Kaminski is a member of the Stark County and Ohio State bar associations. He earned his B.A. degree from Northwestern University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Indiana University at Bloomington. MICHELE K. KEITH is with the law firm of Flynn Keith & Flynn, located in Kent. For more than 20 years, Ms. Keith has focused her legal practice on estate planning and estate administration. She has lectured on estate planning topics at the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Estate Planning Institute and the Ohio State Bar Association's Pliskin Institute. Her article "Successfully Integrating an IRA with a Trust Beneficiary" was published in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of the Probate Law Journal of Ohio. Ms. Keith is a member of the Ohio and Portage County bar associations. She earned her B.A. degree from Boston College and her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
JAMES M. MACKEY is a partner with the firm of Walter & Haverfield LLP, where he is certified as a specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the Ohio State Bar Association. His areas of practice include estate planning, probate and corporate law, and business law, including organization, planning, reorganization, successions, taxation, valuation, buying and selling businesses, closely held business law, family business law, and limited liability company law. Mr. Mackey is a frequent lecturer to professional and public organizations on business and estate planning topics. He is a member of the Cleveland (Corporate Law, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law sections), Ohio State (Real Property, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law sections) and the American (Real Property, Corporate Law, Probate and Trust Law sections) bar associations. Mr. Mackey earned his B.A. degree from John Carroll University and his J.D. degree from Cleveland State University.
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