Paul Frank + Collins is pleased to announce that Allen D. Webster, CPA, of South Burlington has joined the firm as Of Counsel to work on the firm’s Business Services + Taxation, Commercial Finance and Trusts + Estates teams. Attorney Webster is a cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School and holds an MBA Degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. A licensed Certified Public Accountant, he also holds a LLM degree in taxation from Boston University School of Law. He comes to PF+C following many years of practice at Lisman, Webster & Leckerling, P.C.
Mr. Webster’s corporate and commercial law practice work focuses on tax matters, including mergers, acquisitions and the sale of businesses. He also advises individual clients on a broad range of tax related matters and represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Court. A significant portion of Mr. Webster’s practice is devoted to sophisticated estate planning, including planning with the use of revocable and irrevocable trusts and partnerships. He has lectured extensively on estate planning and tax matters throughout the United States and Canada.
Mr. Webster has been a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel since 1997 and currently serves as Vermont State chairperson. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in editions of The Best Lawyers of America since 2003, and has been acknowledged in New England Super Lawyers in the area of Trust and Estates since 2006. He served as an officer of the American Association of Attorney Certified Public Accountants for five years and held the position of President in 2000. He is currently a director of the Association and also Trustee of the Attorney-CPA Foundation.
PF+C Director and Vice-President, John Draper said, “We are very pleased and excited to have Allen join us at PF+C. His expertise and many years of experience in estate planning, taxation and commercial law make him a superb addition to our firm. Allen has been widely recognized as an exceptional lawyer in his fields of practice, and will fit in perfectly with our very talented team.”
Formed in 1968, Paul Frank + Collins is a 25 lawyer firm with 50 employees based in Burlington, Vermont. The firm’s attorneys provide a wide range of legal services to commercial, institutional and individual clients throughout Vermont, the United States and Canada.