Proskauer Rose LLP

www.proskauer.com

2255 Glades Road, Suite 340 West
Boca Raton

tel: 561.995.4777
fax 561.241.7145
dpratt@proskauer.com

David Pratt is a partner in the Personal Planning Department of Proskauer Rose LLP, practicing in the Boca Raton office.  His practice is dedicated exclusively to the areas of trusts and estates, and estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer, and fiduciary and individual income taxation.  He specializes in estate planning, post-mortem tax planning and asset protection.  David received his B.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany, his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University Law School.  He is Florida Board-Certified in both Taxation and Wills, Trusts and Estates.  David is on Worth Magazine's list of top 100 attorneys in the United States, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, and has also been recognized as one of "Florida's Legal Elite" by Florida Trend Magazine and as a "Florida Super Lawyer" by Florida Super Lawyers Magazine.  David is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is a member of the Estate and Gift Tax, Fiduciary Income Tax and Asset Protection Committees of the College.  He is also the Chair of the Fiduciary Income Tax Committee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section, and has previously served as Vice-Chair and Secretary of such Committee.  He is also a past Co-Chair of the Business Planning and Valuation Subcommittee and the Hubert Task Force, both of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section.  David is an active member of the Florida Bar's Tax Section and is currently the Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee, Chair of the Tax Section's Certification Review Committee and the Chair-Elect Designate of the Tax Section.  He will serve as the Chair-Elect in 2007 and as the Chair in 2008.  He has held many leadership positions in the Tax Section, including Director of the Educational and Federal Tax Divisions, Secretary of the Tax Section, and Chair (and Founder) of the New Tax Lawyers Committee.  David is also an active member of the Florida Bar's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section.  He is currently on the Executive Council as the Liaison to the Tax Section.  He also serves as a member of the Section's Wills, Trusts and Estates Certification, Estate and Trust Tax Planning and Asset Preservation Committees.  David is also an adjunct professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, where he teaches in the LL.M. program.  He is also a faculty member of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, where he teaches a course on estate and gift taxation.  He has also published various articles in legal journals, and lectures extensively to other lawyers and professionals, and laypersons.  David is also very involved with local organizations.  He is a past President of the Palm Beach Tax Institute and past President and Founder of the Boca Raton Tax Institute.  He is also a member of the Boca Raton and Palm Beach/Martin County Estate Planning Councils.  David has been very active with his community through his affiliation with the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.  He is currently the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.  He is also a past Chair of the Professional Advisory Committee of both the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County.  He is also a member of the Jewish National Fund's Legal Committee and the Executive Committee of Professional Advisers for the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties, and has served on many Planned Giving Committees of charitable organizations in Palm Beach County.