Monday, December 21, 2009

Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass Partner Jeffry Bernstein Honored with Garvey Award

The California State Bar Tax Section will account Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP Partner Jeffry Bernstein with the Garvey Award for his lifetime accomplishment and contributions in the across of tax at its anniversary November meeting.

For added than 31 years, Bernstein has specialized in income, acreage and acreage tax matters. He has lectured abundantly on taxation and accomplished at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Puget Sound School of Law, and in the Master of Laws Taxation Program at Golden Gate University. He served three years on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Tax Section and organized the acknowledged anniversary collective appointment of the State Bar Tax Section and Los Angeles County Bar Tax Section, presenting action and aldermanic affidavit to associates of the IRS, Senate Finance Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, and Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, he acted as appropriate adviser to the Executive Committee with attention to this collective program.

"We are so appreciative of Jeff for accepting this account and recognition,” Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass Managing Partner Danna Kozerski said. “The affiliation applauds him for his contributions and account in tax law, but even added chiefly are Jeff’s audience and their businesses that account from his abysmal captivation in this awful abstruse specialty. "

In his practice, Bernstein represents audience in able tax issues arising in circuitous transactions, including absolute acreage development, mergers and acquisitions. He counsels start-up companies and advises on partnership, LLC and accumulated assets tax implications, as able-bodied as represents individuals on federal and California assets tax issues, California sales and acreage tax considerations, acreage and accommodating planning, and the aftereffect of affairs on all-embracing ancestors banking planning. Bernstein has actively represented audience in IRS audits, California FTB and SBE audits, and afore the U.S. Tax Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has auspiciously litigated acreage tax appeals consistent in cogent appraisal reductions for audience such as San Francisco Shopping Centre, Catellus Development Corp., JCDecaux and Costco.

Bernstein is a adolescent of the American College of Tax Counsel, a affiliate of the committees on Pass-Through Entities and Partnerships of the American, California and New York State Bar Associations, and a affiliate and above armchair of the Western Region Bar Association IRS Liaison Committee. He has been ranked a allotment of The Best Lawyers in America for added than 20 years.

Bernstein becoming his J.D. and LL.M. in taxation in 1971 and 1975, respectively, from New York University School of Law, area he served as an editor of the New York University Law Review. He accustomed in B.A. from Queens College in New York in 1967.

About Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP
Established added than 100 years ago, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP is a arch provider of innovative, results-oriented acknowledged casework focused on the afterward convenance and industry areas: absolute acreage and acreage use; litigation; corporate, business and bookish property; acreage planning and tax; absolved organizations and accommodating planning; and renewable activity and blooming business. The firm’s contempo successes cover the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, for which it served as advance counsel, and acceptance of Partners Pamela Duffy and Douglas Sands as Dealmakers of the Year for accepting a redevelopment acceding to transform locations of the City's celebrated Presidio into a mixed-use association and civic park. Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass is certified as a blooming business by the Bay Area Green Business Program. For added information: www.coblentzlaw.com

Contacts:
Melinda Hepp / Traci Stuart
Blattel Communications
415.397.4811
melinda@blattel.com / traci@blattel.com

Mee Mee Wong
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP
415.391.4800
mwong@coblentzlaw.com

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