Jeffrey S Brown
Harris Caddell & Shanks PC
Jeff provides extensive expertise to small and large business clients regarding daily operations and tax-saving strategies. His corporate practice also includes business formation and financing issues, contract review and assistance, mergers and acquisitions and employment law matters.
He also skillfully applies his tax knowledge to his estate planning practice area. In addition to drafting documents necessary to implement his client’s estate plans, including wills and trusts, Jeff counsels regarding charitable giving and special needs planning. Similarly, Jeff provides valuable counsel to personal representatives and trustees during the estate administration process.
Jeff has extensive experience in the coordination of real estate transactions, from the simple preparation of a deed or mortgage to the complexity of a large-scale commercial real estate closing. Jeff is an agent for First American Title Insurance Company and enjoys a good working relationship with area real estate agents and financial institutions.
Jeff resides with his wife (Melissa) in Decatur and they have two children. They are members of Central United Methodist Church.
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Elder Law
- Credit Cards Accepted
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Both hourly and flat fees, based on type and complexity of case.
- Alabama
- Alabama State Bar Association
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- United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
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- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
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- United States Tax Court
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- Shareholder-Member
- Harris Caddell & Shanks PC
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- New York University School of Law
- LL.M. (1995) | Taxation
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- University of Alabama School of Law
- J.D. (1993)
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Activities: Member, Bench and Bar, 1993. Student Editor: American Journal of Tax Policy, 1991-1993; Student Editor: Law and Psychology Review, 1992-1993
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- University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
- B.S. (1990) | Accounting
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- Alabama State Bar # 7931O53J
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- Morgan County Bar Association
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- Website
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