Kitty Hawk NORTH CAROLINA

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    • Mailing Address: 8 Juniper Trail
      Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 27949
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    • Monday: 09:00 - 17:00
    • Tuesday: 09:00 - 17:00
    • Wednesday: 09:00 - 17:00
    • Thursday: 09:00 - 17:00
    • Friday: 09:00 - 17:00
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ABOUT Patrick W. Herman

Pat Herman is senior tax attorney at Vandeventer Black, having a tax degree and 35 years of experience. Pat’s practice is focused on estate planning, employee benefits and ERISA matters, general tax planning, and exempt organizations. He is licensed to practice in Virginia and North Carolina, sharing time in our Norfolk and Kitty Hawk offices, with regular visits to our Richmond Office to assist clients with sophisticated tax planning.

Tax, trust and estate planning, and administration are a major part of Pat’s tax practice. He enjoys assisting families with successful wealth transfer planning and techniques, including the use of family limited liability companies, succession planning, “dynasty” and special needs trusts. Protecting family members while preserving family harmony and saving taxes is the goal.

Pat also assists clients with state and local tax issues, as well as the Virginia Watercraft Tax. For his ERISA practice, he represents individual Employer sponsored plans, Taft-Hartly Multi-Employer Plans, and local (governmental) plans.

Pat enjoys contributing to the community through his participation on the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation Board, where he serves as General Counsel.

Pat has also enjoyed being able to serve on the boards, provide counsel to numerous tax-exempt organizations, including the Living River Restoration Trust, Virginia International Terminals, Inc.; Virginia Maritime Association; Pea Island Preservation Society; Corolla Wild Horse Fund; Angel Kiss Foundation; Fisher House of Richmond; Eastern Seaboard Trust; Agena Foundation; Cape Hatteras Electric Membership Corporation; Center for Hope & Healing; John R. Lilliard Scholarship Foundation; Norfolk Medical Society; Virginia Airport Authority; First Flight Scholarship Fund and the Outer Banks Community Foundation.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating

Virginia Business, “Virginia Legal Elite” (2000-present))

Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Tax Law (2007-present); Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law (2015-present)

Thomson Reuters, “Virginia Super Lawyers” (2011-present); “Virginia Rising Stars” (2008-09)

Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Virginia’s Leaders in the Law (Class of 2013)

Coastal Virginia Magazine, “Top Lawyers” - Tax Law and Wills, Trusts & Estates (2017-present)

News

•Vandeventer Black Attorneys Recognized as 2020 Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia
•Twenty-two Vandeventer Black Attorneys Selected as 2019 Legal Elite
•Vandeventer Black Attorneys Recognized as Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia
•Vandeventer Black Attorneys Listed as ‘The Best Lawyers in America’ of 2019
•Twenty-two Vandeventer Black Attorneys Recognized as Top Lawyers
•27 Vandeventer Black Attorneys Named ‘The Best Lawyers in America’ of 2018
•Four Vandeventer Black Attorneys Named Lawyer of the Year for 2017
•25 Vandeventer Black LLP Attorneys Named Best Lawyers In America 2017
•12 Vandeventer Black LLP Attorneys Selected as 2015 Virginia Super Lawyers
•Congratulations to the Vandeventer Black LLP Attorneys Recognized as 2015 Virginia Legal Elite

Articles

•CARES ACT - Should you take your Coronavirus Related Distribution from your Retirement Plan?
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•THE NEW TAX ACT AND MY ESTATE PLANS: NOW WHAT?
•ESTATE PLANNING FOR FAMILY HELD BUSINESSES: AN UPDATE ON THE NEW IRS PROPOSED REGULATIONS TARGETING “DISCOUNTING”

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Areas of LAW

  • Business
  • Estate Planning
  • Tax

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