Mike Kaplan, a member of Sherrard & Roe, practices in the areas of taxation, estate planning and tax exempt organizations.  Mr. Kaplan is a Fellow and Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and serves on its Charitable Planning and Exempt Organization Committee as well as the College's Audit Committee.  He is active in the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and is on its Committee on Tax Exempt Organizations.  Mr. Kaplan currently is a member of the Tennessee Probate Study Committee of the Tennessee Bar Association and previously served for two years as chairman of the Tax Section of the TBA.  He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Estate Planning Council and as chairman of the Tax Section and a Board Member of the Nashville Bar Association.

Mr. Kaplan represents numerous public charitable organizations and private foundations.  He is a frequent lecturer on taxation, estate planning, tax-exempt organizations and charitable giving techniques to both professional organizations and other groups.  He has also written extensively in the areas of taxation and estate planning and has drafted Chapter 11, Nonprofit Corporations, in West Publishing’s Tennessee Practice treatise.  He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Worth, Money and Lawyers Weekly.  He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of both taxation and estate planning and The Best Lawyers in Nashville in trust and estates.  He is listed among the best lawyers in Nashville.

Mr. Kaplan received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Vanderbilt University.  He holds an LL.M. (in Taxation) from New York University. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Kaplan served as attorney-advisor to the Honorable Samuel B. Sterrett, Judge of the United States Tax Court, Washington, D.C. from 1972 through 1974.  Mr. Kaplan is President-elect and member of the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Golf Association.

• Woodward/White “The Best Lawyers In America” (Tax Law & Trusts and Estates) 2008-2010
• Woodward/White “The Best Lawyers In America” (Non-Profit/Charities Law) 2009-2010
• The Best of the U.S. LLC (Trusts and Estates & Tax) 2006-2008
• Nashville Business Journal “Best of the Bar” (Estate Planning/Tax) 2003-2009
• Mid-South Super Lawyers (Estate Planning & Probate) 2006-2008
• The Best Attorney’s Network (Tax Law & Trusts and Estates) 2005-2008

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