Donald A. Richards, Attorney

Mr. Richards concentrates his practice in transactional law with an emphasison tax planning. He has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions,employee benefits and estate planning. He began his career as an agent with the Estate and Gift Taxdivision of the Internal Revenue Service, and continued as a member of thefirms of Lampf Lipkind et al, and Courter Kobert et al before joining Fein, Such, Kahn and Shepard in 1994.

Mr. Richards frequently lectures and authors in the area of taxation. He is theauthor of "When Will Notice of Change of Address Bind the IRS"published in the Journal of Taxation. He also successfully advocated his clientspositions in Gmelin v. Commissioner and Estate of Herbert Levyv. Commissioner. Estate of Levy is widely recognizedby tax practitioners asa key case in defining the reciprocal trust doctrine.

While at Albany Law School, Mr. Richards was a member of the Alpha Mu GammaHonor Society and Justinian Honor Society. He was also the member of the AlbanyLaw Review in 1971. Mr. Richards is a Chartered Financial Consultant and obtained the designationof CFC from The American College in 1986. He is a member of the New Jersey Stateand New York State Bar Associations.