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Holland & Knight's Ed Koren Elected to the American Law Institute
 
 April 7, 2008
 
Edward "Ed" Koren- Tampa

TAMPA – Holland & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Ed Koren has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Members of ALI draft and publish various restatements of the law, model codes and legal studies to promote the clarification and simplification of the law. Current members consist of judges, lawyers and legal educators who nominate new members based on their high character and ability.

Chair of the firm's Private Wealth Services Group, Koren's practice is heavily involved in wealth planning and protection for entrepreneurs and multi-generational business owners. He is past chair of the ABA's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; former ACTEC Regent and chair of its Estate and Gift Tax Committee; and author of Estate and Personal Financial Planning, a five-volume treatise published by West that covers planning concepts for asset accumulation and transfer throughout life and through inheritance. Koren assists high-net-worth clients to attain and maintain their financial and estate planning goals through sophisticated wealth transfer arrangements. He also handles IRS transfer tax controversies involving succession and income taxes, and is involved in various forms of probate and trust litigation.

Koren is a Florida Board Certified Wills, Trusts and Estates Lawyer. He has written numerous articles and chapters in publications pertaining to trusts, estates, individual taxation, and estate planning and administration, and speaks regularly at seminars sponsored by various national and regional professional organizations.

About The American Law Institute: The American Law Institute was founded in 1923 and is based in Philadelphia. The Institute, through a careful and deliberative process, drafts and then publishes various restatements of the law, model codes, and other proposals for legal reform “to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific legal work.” The Institute’s incorporators included Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft, future Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and former Secretary of State Elihu Root. Judges Benjamin N. Cardozo and Learned Hand were among its early leaders. www.ali.org

Contact: Kristin Ricca (813) 769-4335