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As family offices consider their tax planning strategy, it is important for their tax attorneys, financial executives, and legal team to conduct an analysis of the Biden Administration’s Tax Proposal. This guide and in-depth review, which includes an overview of the proposals impacting high-income taxpayers, will help you prepare for the changes.

Many business owners worry about how their success and wealth will impact their loved ones and the next generation. The fear behind it can hinder the ability of future generations to build on past success and even lead to family tension. To successfully move past the fear-based planning and toward a collaborative approach, five secrets and action items of successful families demonstrate how to effectively transfer the family wealth and values.

Professional services firms are under immense pressure to innovate, accelerate digital transformation, and meet stakeholder demands. From transparent ESG reporting to investments in new technologies and cybersecurity, this playbook will help you ready your organization in an evolving industry and prepare for the future.

Quiet quitting is not new to the workforce, but it is on the rise and is a growing concern for organization leaders. What exactly is a “quiet quitter?" It's an employee who is disengaged, possibly coasting along in their job and doing the bare minimum on a regular basis. Their disengagement may be leading to workplace issues, including lowering the morale of offices and practices. But there are ways to increase engagement and prevent quiet quitting.

Engaged employees perform with passion, enthusiasm, and connection—they are often your star performers who you don’t want to lose. But in today's workforce environment, just 32% of the workforce is considered engaged—the lowest engagement rate in a decade. In this webcast we explore the new data and trends on the state of the workforce, what is causing low engagement, and how to solve the employee engagement and recruiting challenges.

Trinity Davis and Tom Aldrich discuss digital executive protection and how to navigate the digital space in today's every changing landscape.

An influx of new insurers has helped expand overall capacity in the U.S. insurance market. As the market begins to stabilize, commercial insurance buyers that maintain quality risks with strong data to back them up should begin to see relief in 2022. However, buyers in certain geographic areas, industries and other risk categories will continue to face enormous challenges.

With increasing interest rates, the Treasury Department's recent publication of long-awaited proposed regulations will change the life-expectancy factors used in life expectancy-based estate planning. While the changes may not seem drastic, they should be considered by individuals contemplating its use. For most types of planning, when increased interest rates are favorable to the taxpayer, increased life expectancy is unfavorable to the taxpayer.

For families with significant wealth, a new IRS Revenue Procedure could result in millions of dollars in tax savings. The procedure makes the Deceased Spouse Unused Exclusion available up to five years after the death of the first spouse of a married couple.

Attracting and retaining talent was a significant problem for many organizations before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it continues to be a major issue across most industries. While the pandemic complicated matters, business leaders should look at the talent challenge as an opportunity to reposition itself and take the necessary steps—including leveraging technology and supporting local apprenticeship and school outreach programs—to thrive in the short term and to enjoy success in the long term.