Taylor, Simonson & Winter LLP

KAREN J. SIMONSON, an honors graduate of Harvard University and New York University School of Law, was a senior trial attorney with the Internal Revenue Service, Los Angeles District Counsel Office. As a partner with Taylor, Simonson & Winter LLP, Ms. Simonson's practice emphasizes individual, estate, and business tax planning. In the estate planning area, she prepares full estate plans, including trusts (both revocable and irrevocable), wills, and durable powers of attorney and handles trust administration and probate matters for the firm. Ms. Simonson has prepared or revised over 1,500 estate plans in her career. She also advises clients on a wide range of personal and business planning matters, including family limited partnerships, incorporations, buy-sell agreements, dissolutions, and business sales and purchases.

At the IRS, Ms. Simonson litigated a variety of individual and corporate tax matters, such as Kramer V. Commissioner (characterization of royalty income received from the license of a celebrity name for the "Jack Kramer" Autograph tennis racquet) and Glenview v. Commissioner (involving accelerated depreciation for residential rental property). Ms. Simonson also advised IRS agents concerning tax collection, liens, levies, and tax shelter issues. She then joined the tax department of one of the largest law firms in the nation, where she specialized in federal, California and local tax planning for individuals and corporations.

Ms. Simonson co-authored the treatise Tax Court Practice released by the American Law Institute.

BONNIE F. EMADI began her legal career in 1997 as an associate attorney with Taylor, Simonson & Winter LLP. Her practice includes estate planning, trust administration, and formation and counseling of business entities. She represents trustees and personal representatives in the administration of decedent's estates, and in connection with petitions filed in the Probate Division of the Superior Court of California. In addition, she advises clients in the areas of income tax, property tax, and employment tax, and represents taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service, Franchise Tax Board, and Employment Development Department.

Ms. Emadi obtained her undergraduate degree in economics, with a minor in American literature, at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1997.