Robert S Bernstein
The Tax & Employee Benefits Practice of Foley has a history of helping our clients succeed and prosper through knowledgeable and tax-advantageous counseling, transactions, and planning. Our attorneys and staff are skilled in tax law, executive and corporate compensation, benefits planning, and disputes with state and federal tax authorities. Our reputation for knowledgeable assistance is underscored by the fact that we have participated in landmark trial decisions, helped establish tax law precedents, and laid the groundwork for many state and federal tax procedures. Clients we work with include publicly held corporations, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, and start-up ventures.
Taxation
Foley's Tax attorneys offer corporate clients comprehensive federal, state, and international tax services, ranging from transactional tax planning and tax litigation to legislative and regulatory advocacy. Our corporate clients range from Fortune 100 companies to small, entrepreneurial start-up businesses. We also serve a large number of insurance companies of all sizes as well as charities, health care organizations, trade and other associations, and other tax-exempt entities.
Our attorneys also regularly respond to audits and investigations, seek tax refunds, and defend our clients in civil and criminal cases brought by federal, state and local taxing authorities at the administrative, trial and appellate court levels.
For business clients, we help plan and integrate acquisitions and divestitures as well as help with starting new ventures such as corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
Learn more about our winning strategies before the IRS and State Tax Authorities.
Employee Benefits
The Foley attorneys in this practice counsel employers about a wide range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters. We provide preventive counseling on benefits practices and policies to reduce exposure to employee complaints, governmental agency actions, and union-related problems. We counsel on a broad variety of employee matters, including health, dental, disability, life insurance, severance, cafeteria, and flexible benefits plans. Our counsel also extends to Medicare and Social Security benefits, COBRA compliance, and post-retirement benefits issues such as funding and termination. We also advise and assist clients in resolving benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions. We assist and work closely with Foley trial lawyers who represent corporations and their benefit plans in litigation involving employment benefits and other obligations under ERISA.
Board Certified Tax Law Attorney - Florida Bar
Robert S Bernstein
Foley & Lardner LLP
1 Independent Dr #1300
Jacksonville FL 32202-5017
Tel: 904 359-8729
Fax: 904 359-8700
E-mail: rbernstein@foleylaw.com
LEGAL PRACTICES:
- Estates & Trusts
- Tax & Employee Benefits
INDUSTRY TEAMS:
- Entertainment & Media
Robert S. Bernstein is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and is a member of the firm's Tax & Individual Planning, Tax & Employee Benefits, and Estates & Trusts Practices, as well as the Entertainment & Media Industry Team and the Business Law Department. Mr. Bernstein's practice focuses on corporate, partnership, real estate and international taxation, corporate law, employee benefits, trusts and estates, tax controversy, and tax, valuation and fiduciary litigation matters. He is a member of the Board of Contributing Editors and Advisors, The Journal of Corporate Taxation and writes its Instruments, Techniques and Transactions column. Mr. Bernstein is the author of numerous articles in a variety of tax publications concerning the tax aspects of corporate financial transactions and financial products.
Mr. Bernstein's J.D. degree was conferred, magna cum laude, by the University of Miami School of Law. He was articles & comments editor and a member of the executive board of the University of Miami Law Review, and was elected to membership in the Order of the Coif. He received his Bachelor of Business degree in accounting, magna cum laude, from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
A member of The Florida Bar and the New York State Bar, Mr. Bernstein is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States Tax Court, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Mr. Bernstein is a Florida Bar Board Certified Tax Lawyer. He is a member of the Florida Bar's Tax Law Certification Committee, served as its vice-chair from July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008 and served as its chair from July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009. Mr. Bernstein was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2009 and 2010) in the areas of entertainment and tax law. In 2005, he was recognized as one of Florida's Legal Elite by Florida Trend magazine and in 2006 and 2009, he was selected for inclusion in the Florida Super Lawyers lists.
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