Jamie D. Aul

Jamie D. Aul, an attorney in the firm's Business and Finance Department, concentrates her practice in the areas of Estate and Business Planning and Corporate Taxation, as well as General Business.
 

Jamie graduated in 1991 from Villanova University with a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration. She received her Juris Doctor from Duquesne University in 1994, and her Master's of Science in Taxation from Duquesne University in 1998.

Jamie has been a member of Tucker Arensberg's Estates and Trusts Group since 2006. Jamie is responsible for the preparation of documentation related to estate and business succession planning which includes wills, powers of attorney, revocable and irrevocable trusts, private annuity analyses and supporting documentation, and qualified personal residence trusts. Jamie has prepared and presented training for seminars and in-house training on the Pennsylvania Uniform Trust Act and Principal and Income Act as well as other general trust matters. Jamie has represented clients in the formation of private foundations and application to the IRS for tax exempt status and in estate administration and estate and trust litigation matters.

In addition to her core practice in estate planning, Jamie also is involved in corporate tax structuring and in the representation of clients with regard to state and federal tax controversy matters.
 

Prior to joining Tucker Arensberg, Jamie was a member of the Transaction Advisory Services Department of Ernst & Young, where she focused on mergers, acquisitions, tax due diligence, and corporate restructuring. Jamie also worked in the Federal Corporate Tax Consulting Departments of both Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen. While at the "big four," Jamie performed work related to a wide variety of tax transactions for both publicly and privately held corporations, as well as consulting related to compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Jamie also assisted with tax controversy work before the Internal Revenue Service and State taxing authorities. Her clients ranged from closely held family businesses to Fortune 500 Companies. Before working in public accounting, Jamie served as a law clerk for Judge Dan Pellegrini of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
 

Jamie is active in the community, serving as a volunteer for the bi-annual Galas hosted by the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, as well as the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium Foundation. She also served as Ernst & Young's corporate chair of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes. Jamie is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association Taxation Section, and the Allegheny County Tax Society.
 

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