PRACTICE AREAS: Taxation and Tax Planning, Estate Planning, Trusts and Estates, General Business

EDUCATION: University of Florida - LLM in Taxation, 1983 University of South Dakota School of Law – JD, 1982 Augustana College - Master of Arts in Teaching, 1976 University of South Dakota – BS, 1974

PROFILE:   Mr. Shreves is a board certified tax attorney (Board Certified Tax Specialist – 1992 to present) who represents individuals and businesses in connection with a variety of tax, estate planning and business issues. Mr. Shreves handles tax controversies, planning and implementation issues involving individuals, estates, trusts and businesses. He is a Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist (1996 to present) Mr. Shreves is experienced in drafting and implementing complex estate planning documents, including wills, living wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts for a variety of purposes (i.e., insurance, charitable giving, asset management and planning for incompetence), powers of attorney, acts of donations, and related documents. He has extensive experience in processing successions, ancillary successions, inter vivos asset transfers, and the transfers of probate and nonprobate assets. Mr. Shreves also provides a variety of professional services to businesses and individuals in the tax and business areas, including the following: tax controversies at the federal, state and local levels; the choice, structure, formation and operation of business and nonprofit entities; planning and implementing restructuring transactions including mergers, asset and stock acquisitions, reformation, dissolution and liquidation; dispute resolution, transfers of ownership and business planning for business owners; and general tax strategies and planning for individuals and business owners. Mr. Shreves also handles the elder care, interdiction and tutorship issues for the firm, including the planning issues involving incompetence, establishment of curatorships and tutorships, and advising tutors and curators as to ongoing administrative and compliance issues. His experience includes the handling of tax, estate, trust and business controversies in state and federal courts, the U.S. Tax Court and the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, as well as various administrative agencies.

BAR ADMISSIONS: All state courts in Louisiana All state courts in Colorado All state courts in South Dakota United States District Court Eastern District of Louisiana

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Loyola Law School (1986 to present) Editor - “Wills” and “Tutorship” Chapters of the Louisiana Civil Practice Forms, Third Edition, West Group Speaker at a variety of forums on estate, tax planning and business issues

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Member of the New Orleans Estate Planning Council (1988 to present) Member of the New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations Board Member, Development Committee, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Gretna Senior Citizen’s Clinic Louisiana State Bar Association American Bar Association Defense Research Institute Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel Pro Bono representation of criminally accused