Professional Experience
Paul Tilleman is a partner in the Firm’s Trusts & Estates Group. He is also a former member of the Firm’s Executive Committee and is the Firm’s technology partner. Paul has extensive experience in:
- Creating tax efficient general estate plans and preparing wills, trusts, marital agreements and powers of attorney to carry them out.
- Implementing sophisticated gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning techniques to minimize the impact of taxes on transfers of wealth from generation to generation.
- Counseling owners of family and closely held businesses on succession planning and ownership structures designed to facilitate gift and estate planning transfers.
- Administering estates and trusts and advising personal representatives and trustees on fiduciary duties and income tax and accounting matters.
- Preparing and defending on audit federal and state estate tax, gift tax and fiduciary income tax returns.
- Establishing and operating private foundations and donor-advised funds.
Education and Honors
- University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., 1978)
Order of the Coif. Wisconsin Law Review (Note and Comment Editor).
- University of Wisconsin (B.S., 1974)
Bar Admissions
Arizona,
1983
Wisconsin,
1978
Professional Recognition
Listed in
The Best Lawyers in America® (1993-present: Trusts and Estates).
Selected for inclusion in the 2005-2011
Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists (Estate Planning & Probate).
Martindale-Hubbell AV
® Peer Review Rated.
Professional and Civic Activities
- American Bar Associations (Member).
- Milwaukee Bar Association (Member).
- State Bar of Wisconsin (Member).
- State Bar of Arizona (Member).
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Fellow).
- Family Service of Milwaukee (Fellow).
- Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra (Member).
- Milwaukee Mental Health Consultants (Former President and Board Member).
- Children’s Outing Association (Former Board Member).
- Ko Thi Dance Company (Former Board Member).
- Milwaukee Artists Foundation (Former Board Member).