Joe Higgins is a business lawyer and partner with Foley & Lardner LLP in its Estate Planning Practice.
Joe focuses his practice primarily on estate planning and administration, representing owners of closely-held businesses, private equity fund principals and other ultra-high net worth individuals and their families across the country in connection with tax-efficient wealth transfers, charitable giving and business succession planning. Joe has extensive experience using sophisticated estate planning strategies and structures for these purposes.
- "Business Succession Planning and Philanthropy," Wisconsin Association of Charitable Gift Planners (2022)
- “42nd Annual Estate Planning Update 2021: Recent Developments in Estate Planning,” State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE
- “41st Annual Estate Planning Update 2020: Recent Developments in Estate Planning,” State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE
- "Tax Fundamentals for Estate Planning Attorneys, Course," National Business Institute (2020)
- "Step-Up Basis in Trusts, Estates & LLCs, Course," National Business Institute (2020)
- "Greater North Shore Estate and Financial Planning Council" (2018)
- "Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute" (2017)
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Member, Leadership Greater Madison
- Member, Madison Estate Planning Council
- Member, Wisconsin Association of Charitable Gift Planners
- Former member, The Young Professional Advisory Committee for The Chicago Community Trust
- Former member, New Practitioners Committee for Trusts & Estates Magazine
- “BDIT 2701: Avoiding Section 2701 by Selling Carried Interest Directly to Beneficiary Defective Inheritor’s Trust,” Estate Planning Magazine
- “Transfer Tax Playbook,” Trusts & Estates Magazine
- "Tricky GST Issues," Bloomberg BNA
- Contributor, "Year in Review" and "E-Newsletter" Trust & Estates Magazine
- Contributor, "The Complete Estate Planning Sourcebook," Wolters Kluwer
- "Monthly Tax Law Update," Hennepin County Bar Association
- University of Wisconsin Law School
- Carthage College
- Florida
- Illinois (ARDC)
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin