EUGENE F. POLLINGUE, JR., ESQ.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Wagner Law Group, A Professional Association, Palm Beach Gardens, FL. April 2011 -
Head of Trusts and Estates Department
- Practice is concentrated in area of estate planning for high net worth clients, probate, commercial transactions and income tax planning.
Fox Rothschild, LLP, West Palm Beach, FL. August 2005 – April 2011
Partner
- Duties similar to above.
Haile, Shaw & Pfaffengerger, North Palm Beach, FL. July 2000 – July 2005
Member
- Practice concentrated on estate planning and probate, and tax planning for commercial transactions.
Hickey & Riess, New Orleans, LA. September 1988 – June 2000
Partner
- Practice included estate planning, probate, transactional work and tax litigation.
Hiatt & Kuehne, Lafayette, LA. September 1985 – August 1988
Associate
- Practice included tax planning, commercial law, probate, estate planning and real estate.
Arthur Anderson & Company, New Orleans, LA. July 1983 – July 1985
Tax Staff
- Experience included tax planning and research, assisted in the development of Tax Pac I, the firm’s national tax course for new tax staff.
BAR STATUS
- Member of the Florida Bar
- Member of the Louisiana Bar
- Board Certified Tax Attorney, Louisiana State Bar Association Specialization Board (Taxation)
- Admitted to U.S. Tax Court.
PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION
- Certified Public Accountant, Louisiana.
EDUCATION
- New York University School of Law, LL.M. (in Tax), June 1983.
- Tulane University School of Business, MBA, May 1982. (Member of Beta Alpha Psi national honor society accounting fraternity).
- Tulane University School of Law, J.D., May 1981. (Class rank, upper 15%. Member Phi Alpha Psi legal fraternity, Student Bar Association).
- Tulane University, Bachelor of Arts degree in History, May 1978. (Magna cum laude, with departmental honors. Tulane Scholar. Member Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), Pre-law Society, C.A.C.T.U.S. (The Community Action Council of Tulane University Students).
HONORS
- Martindale-Hubble “AV” rated.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- "Tax Implications of Liquidations of Partnerships and Family Limited Partnerships," (PDF) Boston Bar Association Seminar, November 10, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts)
-View Eugene Pollingue, Jr.'s PowerPoint Presentation here - “Recent Developments in Federal Estate & Gift Tax,” Fox Rothschild Tax Seminar for Tax Professionals. Co-presenter
- “Section 409A After Two Years: What Closely-Held Businesses and Their Tax Advisors Should Know About Deferred Compensation Arrangements,” Fox Rothschild Fourth Annual Tax and Estate Planning Conference for Tax Professionals
- “What Every Estate Planner Needs to Know about the Generation-Skipping Tax,” Tulane Law School Eighth Annual Estate Planning Seminar
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. January 1986 – May 1986
Taught the course of Advanced Tax, Department of Accounting.
PUBLICATIONS
- "Family Partnership Liquidation Presents Tax Issues," (opens new window), Eugene Pollingue and Pauline W. Markey, Estate Planning, May 2011
- "The IRS Continues its Section 2036 Assault on FLPs-Part 3," Co-author with Jerald David August and Guy Maxfield, Business Entities May - June 2006
- "Tax Procedures Involving the Internal Revenue Service," Louisiana Bar Journal, Volume 34, No. 2, August 1986
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
- Member, Board of Directors, Catholic Charities of Diocese of Palm Beach.
- Member, Advisory Council, Planned Giving Committee, Opportunity, Inc.
- Member, Steering Committee, Overtures of the Palm Beach Opera.
- Co-Chair, Young Patrons of the International Society of Palm Beach.