Case Western Reserve University, LL.M., 1971
University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.B., cum laude, 1965
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, B.S. 1962
New Jersey
Pennsylvania (inactive status)
Effective December 31, 2024, Harvey N. Shapiro retired from practicing law. His practice included business and tax counseling, succession and estate planning. He has experience in many technical tax areas such as taxation of S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate activities, and nonprofit entities. Harvey has substantial experience representing family businesses through intergenerational transitions. Throughout his career, he has successfully formed and advised family limited partnerships in various matters including management of wealth. He has lectured extensively on family limited partnerships, succession planning and estate planning, and philanthropic opportunities. His decades-long relationship with many of his clients is due in part to his focus on prudent and tax efficient asset management and protection for them, their businesses and future generations. Harvey likes to say “solved problems have easy solutions.”
Harvey served on a number of boards in southern New Jersey, including the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, of which he is a past president, the Jewish Community Foundation, of which he is counsel and a past president, and the Raymond and Gertrude Saltzman Foundation, of which he was president. He has received the “AV®” peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Previously, Harvey was an attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio and a partner at a number of prominent law firms.
Harvey is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1962), the University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.B., cum laude, 1965), and Case Western Reserve University (LL.M. 1971). When not practicing, Harvey enjoys pinochle and reading.
We wish Harvey well upon his retirement.
AV® peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell
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“Key Income Tax Provisions in the CARES Act,” Co-author, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP eAlert, April 2020