• Clyde Bowles - My Law Partner and Mentor to All
  Robert Held/Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, April 2011

• Contempt: The Court's Highest Power
  Chicago Bar Association Record
  Robert Held, November 2010

• In a World of Congressionally Created Estate Tax Chaos, Taking Advantage of Estate Planning Opportunities That Exist In 2010 And After
  Sophisticated Tax Planning and Trust Administration - California Bar Association
  Louis Harrison, April 16, 2010

• 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
  Chapter 12: Watchtower Heuristics
  Louis Harrison, January 15, 2009

• 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
  Session IV-B Attachment - Clear Communication
  Louis Harrison, January 15, 2009

• 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
  Session IV-B Attachment - Clear Communication GST Forms
  Louis Harrison, January 15, 2009

• 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
  Session IV-B Attachment - Clear Communication Lead QTIP Forms
  Louis Harrison, January 15, 2009

• 43rd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning
  Session IV-B Attachment - Clear Communication QTIP Forms
  Louis Harrison, January 15, 2009

• Borrowing to Pay Estate Tax
  What to Do When There's Not Enough Bucks to Take Care of the Financial Damage
  Louis Harrison, September 25, 2008

• Borrowing to Pay Estate Tax (Slide Show)
  What to Do When There's Not Enough Bucks to Take Care of the Financial Damage
  Louis Harrison, September 25, 2008

• Fees: How to Charge, Collect & Defend Them
  Understanding the Legal and Emotional Aspects to Billing and Collecting for Legal Services
  Louis Harrison, September 25, 2008

• Fees: How to Charge, Collect & Defend Them (Slide Show)
  Understanding the Legal and Emotional Aspects to Billing and Collecting for Legal Services
  Louis Harrison, September 25, 2008

• The Hidden Power of Non-Taxable Lifetime Gifts
  (Slide Show)
  Lou Harrison, May 8, 2007

• The Hidden Power of Non-Taxable Lifetime Gifts
  (Handout)
  Lou Harrison, May 8, 2007

• IRAs and Family Limited Partnerships
  (Slide Show)
  Robert S. Held/IICLE, December 2006

• Federal court denies protection in bankruptcy for inherited IRA
  Robert S. Held and Vasili D. Russis / ISBA - Commercial, Banking & Bankruptcy Law, November 2006

• The Rise of GRAT Planning in Today's Estate and Gift Tax Environment
  (Slide Show)
  Louis S. Harrison at the 43rd Annual Heart of America Tax Institute, November 2, 2006

• The Rise of GRAT Planning in Today's Estate and Gift Tax Environment
  (Report)
  Louis S. Harrison at the 43rd Annual Heart of America Tax Institute, November 2, 2006

• Family Limited Partnerships - A Dangerous New World
  (Slide Show)
  Louis S. Harrison at the 43rd Annual Hawaii Tax Institute, October 31, 2006

• Family Limited Partnerships - A Dangerous New World
  (Report)
  Louis S. Harrison at the 43rd Annual Hawaii Tax Institute, October 31, 2006

• The Secrets to Unleashing the Power of Non-Taxable Lifetime Gifts
  (Slide Show)
  Louis S. Harrison at the 43rd Annual Hawaii Tax Institute, October 30, 2006

• The Secrets to Unleashing the Power of Non-Taxable Lifetime Gifts
  (Report)
  Louis S. Harrison at the 43rd Annual Hawaii Tax Institute, October 30, 2006

• Death Don’t Have no Mercy Except When it Comes to Non Recourse Premium Financed Life Insurance
  (Slide Show)
  Louis Harrison, September 18, 2006

• Death Don’t Have no Mercy Except When it Comes to Non Recourse Premium Financed Life Insurance
  (Report)
  Louis Harrison, September 18, 2006

• CBA Basic Probate Primer
  The A, B, C’s of How to be a Probate Attorney (Slide Show)
  Louis Harrison, September 15, 2006

• CBA Basic Probate Primer
  The A, B, C’s of How to be a Probate Attorney (Report)
  Louis Harrison, September 15, 2006

• United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) and Gift (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Returns
  Emily J. Kuo and Louis S. Harrison/IICLE, 2003

• Thrilla in Manila (Folders): The I.R.S. battles the Taxpayer in the Courts
  Round 14, Has there been a TKO
  Louis S. Harrison, April 21, 2006

• The Federal Government Giveth and the State Govenment Taketh
  Drafting for Decoupled State Death Taxes
  Louis S. Harrison, January-February 2006

• Joint Trusts in Separate Property States
  (Slide Show)
  Louis Harrison - Greater North Shore Estate & Financial Planning Council, March 15, 2006

• Joint Trusts in Separate Property States
  Louis Harrison - Greater North Shore Estate & Financial Planning Council, March 15, 2006

• Asset Protection: Ethics, International and Domestic Strategies, and Possible Ways to Attack Asset Protection Strategies
  Powerpoint presentation for presentation at Chicago Bar Association
  Robert S. Held, March 1, 2006

• Asset Protection: Ethics, International and Domestic Strategies, and Possible Ways to Attack Asset Protection Strategies
  Handout for presentation at Chicago Bar Association
  Robert S. Held, March 1, 2006

• Advanced Estate Planning With IRAs (Handout)
  Robert S. Held, IICLE, March 3, 2005

• Advanced Estate Planning With IRAs (Slide Show)
  Robert S. Held, IICLE, March 3, 2005

• Asset Protection for The 21st Century (Handout)
  Fraudulent Transfer Analysis
  Robert S. Held, Chicago Bar Association, March 1, 2005

• Asset Protection for The 21st Century (Slide Show)
  Fraudulent Transfer Analysis
  Robert S. Held, Chicago Bar Association, March 1, 2005

• Insuring the Efficacy of Your Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
  Louis S. Harrison, Passthrough Entities, January–February 2005

• Planning for Uncertainty (Slide Show)
  How Safe Is My Estate Plan Since the Election is Over?
  Monty Newlin at the Chicago Estate Planning Council, December 16, 2004

• Planning for Uncertainty (PDF File)
  How Safe Is My Estate Plan Since the Election is Over?
  Monty Newlin at the Chicago Estate Planning Council, December 16, 2004

• GRATs: The New Viagra of Estate Planning
  Slide Show from the 2004 Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute
  Louis S. Harrison, October 8, 2004

• The Estate Planners' Guide to Valuing the Closely Held Business: Cutting Through the Patina to the Real Deal
  Slide Show from the 2004 Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute
  Louis S. Harrison, October 7, 2004

• Hedging Death and Taxes
  Self-canceling installment note transactions can minimize the short-term economic risk of mortality
  Robert S. Held and Charles F. Monty Newlin, Trusts & Estates, January 2004

• Justifying FLPs
  FLPs are often sound investments with enough economic substance to defend against IRS attack
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, Trusts & Estates, November 2003

• Total Return Trusts Give Trustees Flexibility in Ever-changing Markets
  Louis S. Harrison, Erica E. Lord and Senator Kirk W. Dillard, Illinois State Bar Association Journal, May 2003

• Alternative Billing Arrangements in Estate Administration
  How to demonstrate value and obtain value added billing in the current estate administration fee structure
  Louis S. Harrison, Chicago Bar Record , May 2003

• Short-Term Estate Planning
  Louis S. Harrison, Robert S. Held, and Emily J. Kuo, April 2003

• Sham Transaction Doctrine
  How far will this income tax concept invade the estate and gift tax planning realm?
  Louis S. Harrison, Robert S. Held, Trusts & Estates, February 2003

• Estate & Succession Planning
  The Treasury Creates Good Vibrations: The Final Regulations Under Code Sec. 643*
  Louis S. Harrison, January/February 2004

• Current Post-Mortem Income Tax Planning
  Louis S. Harrison, 1989

• Calculating the Potential for Transfer Tax Savings in Personal Residence GRITs
  QPRT
  Louis S. Harrison, April 1994

• The Treasury Creates Good Vibrations
  The Final Regulations Under Code Sec. 643*
  Louis S. Harrison, CCH Incorporated, January/February 2004

• Allocation of Estate Planning Fees Can Save Taxes
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, January/February 1994

• Coordinating Buy-Outs and Installment Payment of Estate Tax
  Louis S. Harrison, May/June 1995

• Drafting and Payment Considerations Under the South Carolina Estate Tax
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, South Carolina Lawyer, January/February 1995

• Deductibility of Estate Planning Fees
  An Old Strategy Revisited
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga

• Estate Planning in the 90s
  An Evolutionary Approach
  Lou Harrison

• Lapse of Crummey power need not result in taxable gift if hanging power is used
  Louis S. Harrison, Esate Planning, May/June 1990

• Illinois Estate Tax Practice Pointers
  John M. Janiga and Louis S. Harrison , Illinois Bar Journal, November, 1993

• IRS rulings demand more careful use of revocable trust to make gifts
  Louis S. Harrison, Esate Planning, November/December 1990

• Maximizing the Use of the State Death Tax Credit
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, Estate Planning, March/April 1992

• Obtaining 501 (c)(3) Status for Economic Development Organizations
  A Guide for Attorneys
  Louis S. Harrison, August 1990

• Post-Mortem Returns and Civil Tax Penalty Exposure
  A Guide Through the Maze
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, Taxes, August 1993

• Prop. Regs. Address Adjustments and Lapsing Rights
  Louis S. Harrison and Heather Smith, Estate Planning, January/February 1992

• Proposed Regulations Amplify New Estate Freeze Rules
  Louis S. Harrison, Estate Planning, September/October 1991

• Revocable Lifetime Trusts
  John T. Anderson and Louis S. Harrison
  Lord, Bissell & Brook, 1991

• Sorting Out Life's Complexities
  Taxes Wills Trust Power of Attorneys Retirement Plans Health Care Decisions
  Louis S. Harrison, John M. Hughes, John M. Janiga, Simon & Schuster, 1994

• Special Valuation Rules of Chapter 14 and Partnerships Can Save Transfer Taxes
  Louis S. Harrison, Journal of Partnership Taxation, 1994

• Structuring Trusts to Permit the Donor to Act as Trustee
  Louis S. Harrison, Estate Planning, December 1995

• The Florida Estate Tax
  Beware the Nuances
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, The Florida Bar Journal, December 1994

• The Real Implications of The New Transfer Tax Valuation Rules
  Success or Failure
  Louis S. Harrison, The Tax Lawyer, Summer 1994

• The Strategic Use of Lifetime Gifting Programs to Reduce Estate Taxes in Light of Recent Congressional and Internal Revenue Service Antipathy Towards Transfer Tax Reduction Devices
  Louis S. Harrison, DePaul Law Review, Winter 1991

• Using A Multi-Class Corporation to Achieve Estate and Gift Tax Savings
  Does it Work After Chapter 14?
  Louis S. Harrison, Syracuse Law Review, 1994

• Valuation of Closely Held Stock for Transfer Tax Purposes
  The Current Status of Minority Discounts for Intrafamily Transfers in Family-Controlled Corporations
  John M. Janiga and Louis S. Harrison, Taxes, May 1991

• How to Use Grantor Retained Income Trusts To Reduce the Gross Estate
  Louis S. Harrison, Successful Estate Planning Ideas And Methods, 1990

• Partnerships as the Answer to an Archaic Tax Provision Tax Provision
  Retaining Interests in Gifted Assets in a Permissable Way to Avoid Estate Tax
  Louis S. Harrison, Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, November 10, 1994

• Proper Premortem Allocation of Assets to Maximize Estate and Income Tax Planning
  Part 1
  Louis S. Harrison, Asset Protection, January/February 1996

• Protection for Unpaid Directors and Officers of Illinois Not-for-Profits
  Fact or Fiction
  Louis S. Harrison and Eric L. Marhoun, Illinois Bar Journal, April 1991

• The Effective Use of GRITs To Reduce the Gross Estate
  Louis S. Harrison, Taxes-The Tax Magazine, July 1990

• Prop. Regs. Clarify Planning for GRITs
  Buy-Sell Agreements
  Louis S. Attorney, Estate Planning, November/December 1991

• The Case for the Retention of the State Death Tax Credit in the Federal Transfer Tax Scheme
  John M. Janiga and Louis S. Harrison, Pepperdine Law Review, November 3, 1994

• The Viability of Grantor Retained Interest Trusts to Reduce Transfer Tax Exposure in Light of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990
  Louis S. Harrison, Boston University Journal of Tax Law, November 1990

• Planning Your Children's College Education
  Lou Harrison, Lord, Bissell & Brook, 1990

• A Taxpayer's Death Triggers Many Filing Requirements
  Louis S. Harrison and John M. Janiga, Taxation for Accountants, March 1993

• Estates and Trusts File the Same Return, But Use Different Rules
  Louis S. Harrison, Taxation for Accountants, September 1991

• Hammond V. North Slope Borough: The Endangered Species Issue
  An Exersise in Judicial Lethargy
  Louis S. Harrison, Alaskan Law Review, Summer 1984

• Proper Premortem Allocation of Assets to Maximize Estate and Income Tax Planning
  Part 2
  Louis S. Harrison, Asset Protection, March/April 1996

• Managing Sensitive Ecosystems
  Hosinger v. State and the Need for Flexibility in the Rules of Real Property
  Louis S. Harrison, Alaska Law Review, Summer 1984

• Speech on
  Louis S. Harrison, October 28, 1997

• The Michigan Estate Tax
  Effective Drafting and Payment Techniques
  John M. Janiga and Louis S. Harrison, Michigan Bar Journal, June 1996

• Practical Guidance to Planning and Drafting Family Limited Partnerships
  Louis S. Harrison, Igor Potym, IICLE, March 7, 1997

• Group Approach Makes Estate Planning Forms User-Friendly
  Donna Gill, Robert E. Hamilton, Timothy G. Carroll, Donna E. Morgan, Louis S. Harrison, Susan T. Bart, Chicago Lawyer, IICLE, November 1997

• Protecting Fiduciaries
  Considerations in the Drafting of Estate Plan Documents and Administration of Trusts and Estates
  Louis S. Harrison, 1996

• Continuing Vitality of
  The Use of Regular Corporations for Small Business
  Louis S. Harrison, October 1, 1996

• Attorneys' Fees
  An Assessment of the Current Standard for Fee Awards
  Louis S. Harrison and Emily J. Kuo, 2002

• Choosing the Correct Company Format for Applying Sophisticated Estate Tax Reduction Strategies
  Louis S. Harrison, 1997

• Can you live with a living trust?
  Louis S. Harrison, J.D., ADA Legal Adviser, October 1997

• Giving it away
  Louis S. Harrison, J.D., ADA Legal Adviser, August - September 1998

• Greetings from the IRS
  Louis S. Harrison, J.D., ADA Legal Adviser, November 1997 - January 1998

• Too Sick to Have a Say
  Louis S. Harrison, J.D., ADA Legal Adviser, May - June 1998

• Who are all these people?
  Louis S. Harrison, J.D., ADA Legal Adviser, February - March 1998

• The Real Implications of the New Transfer Tax Valuation Rules
  Success or Failure?
  Louis S. Harrison, Anderson Publishing Co., 1994

• Using Options to Allow Donees to Have the Donor's Cake and Eat It , Too
  Louis S. Harrison, Taxes, March 1999

• An Examination of the Fully Phazed-in Massachusetts Estate Tax
  Drafting and Payment Techniques
  John M. Janiga and Louis S. Harrison, Massachusetts Law Review, Winter 1998

• Raddling the Myths and Realities of Partnership Planning in a Strangi II World
  Louis S. Harrison, Passthrough Entities, May-June 2004

• It Is Better To Give...
  Your Guide to Charitable Contributions
  Louis S. Harrison, John M. Hughes and John M. Janiga, 1992

• 42nd Annual Estate Planning Short Course
  Use of Defective Grantor Trusts in Wealth Transfers
  Louis S. Harrison, 1999

• My Kids in College
  How to Use the Tax Laws to Help Pay for Your Children's College Education
  Louis S. Harrison, John M. Hughes and John M. Janiga, 1992

• To Probate or not to Probate
  Everything You Wanted to Know About Probate, But Were Afraid to Ask
  Louis S. Harrison, John M. Hughes and John M. Janiga, 1992

• Should You Trust A Trust
  Answers To Your Questions About Trusts
  Louis S. Harrison, John M. Hughes and John M. Janiga, 1992

• The Will To Give Property
  What You And Your Attorney Should Know About Wills
  Louis S. Harrison, John M. Hughes and John M. Janiga, 1992

• Kimbell: Reprieve for the FLP Fugitive
  Louis S. Harrison, Passthrough Entities, October 2004

• GRATs: Polishing an Estate Planning Gem
  Louis S. Harrison, Passthrough Entities, September-October 2004

• Drafting Trusts
  Slide Show from the Chicago Bar Association Program - Estate Planning and Drafting Fundamentals
  Rob Held, September 28, 2004

• Drafting Trusts
  Materials from the Chicago Bar Association Program - Estate Planning and Drafting Fundamentals
  Rob Held, September 28, 2004

• New Golden Rule For Partnerships
  How to handle FLPs in the wake of Thompson and Kimbell
  Louis S. Harrison and Charles F. Newlin, Trusts and Estates, October 2004

• A Trust Counsel's Duty to Beneficiaries
  Robert S. Held, Illinois Bar Journal, December 2004

• Arbitraging Your Life Insurance
  The Economics and the Law of a Strategy
  Louis S. Harrison, ACTEC 2004 Fall Meeting, November 2004

• Avoiding Problem Clients
  Charles F. (Monty) Newlin, Financial Planning Association, November 12, 2004

• Keeping Good Clients from Going Bad
  Avoiding problems that can ruin the relationship, including billing and communication problems
  Robert S. Held, Financial Planning Association, November 12, 2004

• Insuring the Efficacy of Your Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
  Estate and Succession Planning Corner
  Louis S. Harrison - Passthrough Entities , January/February 2005

• How does the Estate Planner spell
  “Estate Tax Repeal?”
  Lou Harrison, May 2005

• Marriage Is Joint; Why Not Your Trusts?
  When to Use a Joint Trust As a Passthrough Entity in Seperate Property Jurisdictions
  Louis S. Harrison - CCH Incorporated, May - June 2005

• Defensive Strategies For Potential Will and Trust Contests
  Lou Harrison/American Bar Association: Probate & Property, Nov/Dec 1999

• IRAs and Family Limited Partnerships
  Robert S. Held/IICLE, December 2006

• IRAs and Family Limited Partnerships
  Robert S. Held/IICLE, December 2006

• Borrowing to Pay Estate Tax
  Handout for the 32nd Annual American Institute on Federal Taxation (Birmingham, AL)
  Louis Harrison, June 18, 2008

• Borrowing to Pay Estate Tax
  Slide Show at the 32nd Annual American Institute on Federal Taxation (Birmingham, AL)
  Louis Harrison, June 18, 2008

• A+ Standard Provisions In Estate Planning Dox
  (With An Eye To The New Estate Tax Law)
  Louis Harrison, March 16, 2010

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