Michael W Fisher
FISHER, TOUSEY, LEAS & BALL, P.A. offers many practice areas to meet the needs of its clients. The following is a listing of our Jacksonville Law Firm Practice Areas:
* Corporate / Business
* Partnerships & LLCs
* Tax
* Trusts & Estates
* Real Estate
* Retirement Plans, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

The attorneys of our trust and estates group have one goal: to help our clients transfer their wealth in a way that carries out their objectives in a manner that minimizes taxes and transfer costs, using a plan that they understand. Since a plan that is not understood can hardly be fully embraced, we take great pride in educating our clients and explaining their estate plan so that they can be totally involved in the estate planning process.

Since our firm’s founding in 1978, estate planning, probate, and trust law have been a major part of our practice. Although we have many attorneys in our trust and estates group with over twenty years of individual experience, we also have associate attorneys who are well suited to working with younger families whose needs are less complicated. In addition to estate planning, the firm’s practice includes a large component of estate and trust administration. Although our role in this area is primarily as an advisor to individuals named to settle estates or trusts, in recent years the firm has also allowed individual attorneys of the firm to be named as personal representatives of estates or trustees of trusts, where this might serve the client’s interest. Whether as advisors or as the individual charged with settling the estate or trust, our goal is always to assist in the transfer of the clients’ estates to their beneficiaries with a minimum of tax costs, transfer costs, time, and complexity.

Since many of our clients are family business owners, it has given us great pride over the years to represent successive generations as they transfer their closely held family business.

Because estate planning and estate and trust administration is a team effort, we work closely with the clients’ other advisers, such as financial planners, insurance professionals, accountants, and trust officers.

First and foremost, we recognize that each client is a unique individual with his or her own unique family situation, goals, and estate planning issues, and we tailor each client’s estate plan to his or her particular situation.

Board Certified Attorney, Wills, Trusts & Estates - Florida Bar

Michael W Fisher
Fisher Tousey Leas & Ball
501 Riverside Ave #600
Jacksonville FL 32202-4913
Tel: 904 356-2600
Fax: 904 355-0233
E-mail: mwf@fishertousey.com

AREAS OF PRACTICE
* Estate Planning Law
* Tax Law
* Corporate and Business Formations and Sales

Michael W. Fisher is a native of Jacksonville. He is the founding and senior partner of Fisher, Tousey, Leas & Ball, focusing primarily on estate and business planning. He advises businesses on tax issues and handles acquisitions, mergers and sales of existing businesses. His business practice is primarily limited to closely-held corporations that are controlled by family groups.

Michael has also done extensive work for charitable foundations wishing to establish and maintain tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code and under state laws. He has been selected by attorneys in a statewide poll as a Florida “Super Lawyer,” one of the top five percent of lawyers practicing in the State of Florida. He also was recognized in the publication, “The Best Lawyers in America.”

Michael is a past trustee of the Children’s Home Society of Florida, a board member and past chairman of the Buckner Division of the Jacksonville Children’s Home Society, and a past trustee and current general counsel of The Community Foundation, and board member and past president of Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida

WORK EXPERIENCE
* Counsel and advise clients concerning formation and capitalization of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and other types of business entities.
* Represent clients in the acquisition or disposition of equity interests or assets of businesses and the dissolution or liquidation of such businesses as well as mergers and other types of tax free reorganizations.
* Represent clients of ongoing businesses regarding tax, contracts and general business matters.
* Advise clients on the creation and tax exempt status of charitable organizations.
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