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Erika A. Alley
Associate
Erika Alley is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP concentrating on estate planning, probate and estate and trust administration. She advises clients on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, fiduciary income tax planning, charitable planning, planning for closely held businesses, and retirement account and life insurance planning. Ms. Alley's practice also encompasses estate and trust litigation, including will and trust contests, judicial constructions of wills and trusts, breach of fiduciary duty issues, charitable pledge disputes, and appeals of such matters. She is a member of the firm's Tax & Individual Planning and Estates & Trusts Practices.Ms. Alley is a frequent author and speaker on estate and trust law related topics. Selected publications and presentations include: - Co-author, "Leave My IRA Out of It," Trusts & Estates Magazine monthly e-newsletter, June 30, 2010
- Co-author, "Temporary Repeal of Federal Estate Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax May Affect Your Estate Plan," Foley Legal News: Estates and Trusts, 2010
- Co-author, "Trust Contests," published in the handbook titled Litigating Disputed Estates, Trusts, Guardianships and Charitable Bequests, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), 2009
- Co-author, "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — Individual Tax, Business Tax and U.S. Small Business Administration Provisions," Foley Legal News: Tax, 2009
- Co-author, "The Jewish Clause," Trusts & Estates Magazine monthly e-newsletter, January 21, 2009
- Co-author, "Stung by the Slayer Statute," Trusts & Estates Magazine monthly e-newsletter, November 19, 2008
- Moderator, IICLE Trust Administration course, February 2007
- Presenter, "Risk Management for Trustees," IICLE Trust Administration course, February 2006
- Co-author, "Delegation of Trustee's Duties to Advisors," The Banking Law Journal, February 2004
Ms. Alley's professional activities include regular pro bono work on estate planning and not-for-profit matters and membership in the Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association. She earned a B.A. in English from Wittenberg University (summa cum laude, 1999), and received her law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology (with high honors, 2002).
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