LOS ANGELES ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL

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Beth Shapiro Kaufman is a Partner in the Washington D.C. office of the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler LLP, practicing in the areas of estate planning, estate, gift and generation-skipping tax, and income taxation of trusts and estates.  At Lowenstein, Ms. Kaufman is the National Chair of the Private Client Services Group and the Chair of the Trusts and Estates Group, where she assists wealthy individuals with their estate planning and tax controversies. She also advises lawyers and other professionals on complex issues regarding estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes in both planning and audit contexts. She is frequently retained by counsel to advocate a taxpayer's position before the Internal Revenue Service, and has been particularly active in obtaining relief for failed generation-skipping transfer tax exemption allocations. 

From 1995 to 2001, Ms. Kaufman was an Associate Tax Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy.  In that capacity, she was responsible for estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, as well as income tax issues relating to trusts and estates. 

Ms. Kaufman is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches LLM-level classes on the generation-skipping transfer tax.  She also taught generation-skipping transfer tax at the University of Miami from 2017 through 2023.  Ms. Kaufman is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. 

Ms. Kaufman received her B.A. from Pomona College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is married to a law school classmate and together they have three adult children, none of whom are lawyers.