Joseph (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.
Premios y reconocimientos
- Recognized, Chambers High Net Worth Legal Guide, Private Wealth Law (Wisconsin) (2025)
Afiliaciones
- President, Madison Estate Planning Council
- Member, Wisconsin State Bar, Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section(RPPT)
- 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
Presentaciones y publicaciones
- Presenter, “Business Succession Planning and Philanthropy,” Wisconsin Association of Charitable Gift Planners (2022)
- Presenter, “42nd Annual Estate Planning Update 2021: Recent Developments in Estate Planning,” State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE
- Presenter, “41st Annual Estate Planning Update 2020: Recent Developments in Estate Planning,” State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE
- Presenter, “Tax Fundamentals for Estate Planning Attorneys, Course,” National Business Institute (2020)
- Presenter, “Step-Up Basis in Trusts, Estates & LLCs, Course,” National Business Institute (2020)
- Presenter, “Greater North Shore Estate and Financial Planning Council” (2018)
- Presenter, “Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute” (2017)
- Author, “BDIT 2701: Avoiding Section 2701 by Selling Carried Interest Directly to Beneficiary Defective Inheritor’s Trust,” Estate Planning Magazine
- Author, “Transfer Tax Playbook,” Trusts & Estates Magazine
- Author, “Tricky GST Issues,” Bloomberg BNA
- Contributor, “Year in Review” and “E-Newsletter” Trust & Estates Magazine
- Contributor, “The Complete Estate Planning Sourcebook,” Wolters Kluwer
- Author, “Monthly Tax Law Update,” Hennepin County Bar Association
Foley obtiene el reconocimiento en la Guía de Grandes Patrimonios de Chambers de 2025
Foley & Lardner LLP se complace en anunciar su reconocimiento en la Guía Legal Chambers High Net Worth 2025.
Foley reconocido en la guía Chambers High Net Worth 2024
Foley & Lardner LLP se complace en anunciar que cuatro de sus abogados han sido reconocidos en la edición de 2024 de la guía Chambers High Net Worth Legal Guide.
44.ª Actualización anual sobre planificación patrimonial 2023
Foley elige a 20 nuevos socios
Foley & Lardner LLP se complace en anunciar la elección de 20 abogados como socios, con efecto a partir del 1 de febrero de 2022.