His estates and trusts practice encompasses sophisticated, tax-oriented planning for successful individuals and their families, including entrepreneurs, corporate executives and persons who are beneficiaries of existing trust planning by earlier generations.  Mr. George has broad experience in business succession planning, helping families resolve business, tax and personal issues to achieve succession goals.

He has administered estates of all sizes, and has dealt successfully with a variety of tax and beneficiary controversies.  This experience includes representation of taxpayers before various tax authorities.  He also offers ongoing legal advice with respect to trust and trustee fiduciary concerns.

Mr. George has advised corporate clients on a wide range of employee benefits matters, including qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements for executives, and welfare benefit plan design and administration.

Mr. George is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of its Employee Benefits Committee.  He frequently teaches and lectures for a variety of organizations, including the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Penn State Tax Conference.  He has served on the Planning Committee of the Penn State Tax Conference and is a former Conference Chairman.  He also is a former president of the Pittsburgh Tax Club, a former president of the Allegheny Tax Society and a former president of the Estate Planning Council of Pittsburgh.

Mr. George was named to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for 2007.  Only the top five percent of Pennsylvania lawyers received this distinction.

Education:
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1976
B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1972
LL.M., Georgetown University, 1979

Admissions:
Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C and Virginia

Membership Affiliations:
Allegheny County Bar Association