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TURNEY P. BERRY TURNEY P. BERRY - concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, fiduciary matters, and charitable planning. Mr. Berry is listed in The Best Lawyers in America - Trusts and Estates and is a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Council on Foundations. He is a Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and is Chair of the Charitable Planning and Exempt Organization Committee, a member of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee, the Program Committee, and the State Laws Committee. In addition, he is a delegate to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), serving on a committee to revise the Uniform Probate Code, and a committee to create a mechanism whereby real estate can be transferred without probate. Mr. Berry is a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving and Kentuckiana Planned Giving Council, and an adjunct member of the American Association of Life Underwriters. He has been an Articles Editor of The Tax Lawyer, a past chair of the Louisville Bar Association Probate and Estate Planning Section, a member of the Louisville Estate Planning Council, Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law (courses: "Advanced Estate Planning" and "Representing the Family Business"), and is a regular lecturer before lawyers, accountants, trust officers, and financial planners at institutes and seminars across the country. Articles by Mr. Berry have been published in, among others, Trusts and Estates, The Journal of Taxation, Business First of Louisville, and the Louisville Courier-Journal.. Mr. Berry is the author or co-author of three Tax Management Portfolios: Estate Tax Deductions - Sections 2053 and 2054; Private Foundations - Self Dealing - Section 4941; and Taxable Expenditures - Section 4945. Mr. Berry is listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America® and in the Kentucky Super Lawyer Magazine in the area of Trusts and Estates. Mr. Berry is Vice-Chair of the Center for Interfaith Relations, a Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, a Director of Kentucky Opera, a member of Louisville Downtown Rotary, and Treasurer and past President of the Daily Bread Sunday School Class at Christ Church United Methodist in Louisville. He has previously served on the boards of The Filson Historical Society, the Kentucky Derby Festival Foundation, the Louisville Bar Foundation, Children's Hospital Foundation, Bellarmine Board of Overseers, Arthritis Foundation, Louisville Third Century, Louisville Jaycees, and American Lung Association of Kentucky, He is a frequent speaker before civic, charitable, and community groups throughout Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. He received his B.A. and B.L.S. in 1983 from the University of Memphis and his J.D. in 1986 from Vanderbilt University. |
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