What's New from Washington
ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
BREAKFAST MEETING: September 29, 2017
8:00 AM BREAKFAST & NETWORKING Place: THE MADISON HOTEL
8:30 AM PROGRAM BEGINS One Convent Rd, Morristown, NJ
9:30 AM OPEN FORUM Q&A 973-457-4639
10:00 AM PROGRAM ENDS
TOPIC: What’s New from Washington
SPEAKER: Catherine V. Hughes, Esq., Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Anita J. Siegel, Esq., Siegel & Bergman, LLC, Morristown, N.J.
SPONSOR : Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
Please join us as we kick off our Council’s 2017-2018 Year with an exciting breakfast program featuring Catherine V. Hughes, Esq., the Estate and Gift Tax Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Tax Policy of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington, DC. Ms. Hughes will offer an insider’s perspective on recent developments related to federal tax law in the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and in Washington in general.
In her position in the Department of the Treasury, Ms. Hughes is responsible for advising the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Tax Policy) on all estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax matters. Prior to joining the Treasury Department in 2002, Ms. Hughes was a partner in a large law firm, where she managed the estate planning and administration practice in Northern Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Ms. Hughes has broad and extensive experience in dealing with sophisticated estate planning, transfer tax issues, estate and trust administration, and related fiduciary and tax matters.
Ms. Hughes is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, is a past Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation, and is a former Chair of the Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section of the D.C. Bar. Ms. Hughes received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Dayton, and a J.D. from Catholic University of America, and is a member of the Bar of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
This program has been submitted for approval by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.8 hours of total CLE credit. Of these, 0 qualify as hours of credit for ethics/professionalism, and 0 qualify as hours of credit toward certification in civil trial law, criminal trial law, workers compensation law, municipal court law, and/or matrimonial law.
CFP and CPA continuing education credit will be offered for this presentation.
Randi Siegel Weniger
First Vice President
Program Chairperson
