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MARLA K. CONLEY is an associate in the Philadelphia office of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, where she is a member of the nonprofit organizations practice group and the tax and wealth management department. She focuses her practice on philanthropy and tax-exempt organizations, advising private foundations, public charities and business leagues, as well as organizations applying for tax-exempt status. Ms. Conley represents clients before the IRS, the Attorney General and the Orphans' Court and she routinely advises clients on organizational structure, governance and taxation as well as fundraising and charitable spending. She is a member of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP's Pro Bono Committee and she has strong interest in child dependency and delinquency law based in her prior experience working for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law, and the Delaware Office of the Child Advocate. Ms. Conley currently represents children living in foster care through the Philadelphia Support Center for Child Advocates. She earned her A.B. degree from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. KARL EMERSON is of counsel with the Philadelphia law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, where he focuses on nonprofit and charitable organizations. Mr. Emerson earned his B.S. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire and his J.D. degree from Temple University. He is a prior member of the IRS Tax-Exempt Compliance Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. PHYLLIS HORN EPSTEIN is a partner with the Philadelphia firm of Epstein, Shapiro & Epstein, P.C., where she practices in the areas of taxation, corporate transactions, trusts and estates, and family law. She has been the author of numerous articles for tax-related periodicals and is co-author of the tax litigation chapters of the CCH Federal Tax Service. In addition, Ms. Epstein has been a lecturer for continuing legal education programs on issues of taxation. She has been an active participant in the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, is a member of the Committees on Court Procedure and Individual and Family Taxation, where she is a member of the Executive Council and Public Outreach Task Force. Ms. Epstein served for many years as the editor of the Tax Section Newsletter. She has served on the American Bar Association's Publishing Board of the Law Practice Management Section and Publishing Board of the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession. She presently is the treasurer of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Ms. Epstein is a former co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Women in the Profession Commission and editor of its newsletter Voices and Views. She remains an active member of the Commission's Executive Council. Ms. Epstein served as chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Fee Disputes Committee, a member of the association's Section on Taxation and Women's Rights Committee, the editor of the Business Law Section Newsletter and served on the IRS Liaison Committee. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the "Working Togethe"r alliance of tax practitioners, IRS agents, and CPAs, and is frequently invited to participant in the United States Tax Court Judicial Conference. Ms. Epstein is a member of the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council. She is a graduate of Temple University and its School of Law and also earned her LL.M. degree from Temple University while teaching contract law at La Salle University. Ms. Epstein has been a speaker for the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association, Amnesty International, National Business Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, "Working Together" Annual Tax Conferences, the New Hampshire Women's Bar Association, the 13th Annual Conference of Feminist Law Professors, and the Penn State Smeal College of Business. She is the author of Women-at-Law: Lessons Learned Along the Pathways to Success, published by the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section and a contributor to Representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Clients in Pennsylvania, published by PBI. WILLIAM C. HUSSEY II is a partner with White and Williams LLP in Philadelphia, where he focuses his practice on matters of federal, state, local and international taxation. As part of a multidisciplinary team, he counsels clients in structuring their business and investment affairs in a tax-efficient manner, from the selection, formation and operation of business entities, to the disposition of those entities. Mr. Hussey provides guidance on the ongoing tax obligations and opportunities available to clients in all manners of their domestic and international operations. He also is very familiar with the design and operation of qualified and non-qualified employee benefit and retirement plans that assist businesses in retaining and rewarding their employees and executives. Mr. Hussey regularly assists members of the business/corporate group in structuring taxable and non-taxable acquisitions, mergers and divestitures to maximize the economic potential to clients in those transactions. He also assists clients in resolving tax controversies that may arise at the federal, state and local levels. Another focus of Mr. Hussey's practice is counseling individual clients on all phases of estate and wealth transfer planning. He concentrates his estate planning practice on business succession, wealth transfer and asset protection planning for high net worth individuals, including business owners, executive employees, medical professionals and their families. Mr. Hussey also advises non-profit clients on issues regarding the qualification and maintenance of tax-exempt status. In particular, he is actively engaged with members of the firm's education law group in advising institutions of higher education in designing employee compensation and other programs that comply with state and federal laws. Mr. Hussey has lectured frequently on estate planning topics and publishes articles regularly in the tax and estate planning areas. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Taxation Section, Real Property and Probate and Trust Law Section), Estate Planning Council of Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia Bar Association (Tax Section and Probate Section) and Philadelphia Estate Planning Council. Mr. Hussey earned his B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business; his MBA degree, cum laude, and his LL.M. degree from Temple University; and his J.D. degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law. KENNETH H. RYESKY is a sole practitioner in East Northport, New York, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of taxation, estate planning and business law. Prior to going into the private practice of law, he served as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, Manhattan District. Mr. Ryesky teaches business law and taxation courses at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has written several articles on taxation, and has testified at IRS regulatory hearings. Mr. Ryesky is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his B.B.A. and J.D. degrees from Temple University, his M.B.A. degree from La Salle University, and his M.L.S. degree from Queens College CUNY.
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