Leah M. Bishop

Instructor

 

lbishop@loeb.com

 

Leah Bishop focuses her practice on estate and gift tax planning for high net worth individuals and closely held businesses and in the administration of estates and trusts. Ms. Bishop also has extensive experience in the areas of charitable giving and tax exempt organizations and cochairs the firm's national practice in this area.

 

Ms. Bishop’s estate planning experience includes substantially all aspects of legal matters pertaining to high net worth individuals, including probate court procedures, living trusts, gift and insurance trusts, and sophisticated transfer tax techniques. Her charitable

giving and exempt organizations representation involves all aspects of tax and corporate nonprofit law. Ms. Bishop represents many leading private foundations and public charities.

 

Ms. Bishop has lectured on charitable giving and wealth management for the Western 

Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations, the CPA Foundation, YPO, The Blue Ribbon Finance Forum, Harvard-Westlake, Occidental College, UCLA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), ArtTable, the Beverly Hills Bar Association Committee for the Arts, the Skirball Cultural Center, Hebrew Union College, the California Community Foundation, and the Jewish Community Foundation, among others.

 

Practice Areas

  • Trusts and Estates

  • Nonprofits and Tax-Exempt Organizations

  • Tax

 

Prior Experience

Prior to joining Loeb & Loeb, Ms. Bishop was a partner in the Tax Department at O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

 

Education

Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1979

Columbia Law Review

Brandeis University, B.A., 1975, summa cum laude

Phi Beta Kappa

 

Bar Admissions

California, 1981

New York, 1980

 

Clerkships

Law Clerk, Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

 

 

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Interest in municipal bonds is generally exempt from federal income tax.  However, some bonds may be subject to the alternative minimum tax (AMT).  Typically, state tax-exemption applies if securities are issued within one’s state of residence and, local tax-exemption typically applies if securities are issued within one’s city of residence. Bonds are affected by a number of risks, including fluctuations in interest rates, credit risk and prepayment risk.  In general, as prevailing interest rates rise, fixed income securities prices will fall.  Bonds face credit risk if a decline in an issuer's credit rating, or creditworthiness, causes a bond's price to decline.  Finally, bonds can be subject to prepayment risk. When interest rates fall, an issuer may choose to borrow money at a lower interest rate, while paying off its previously issued bonds. As a consequence, underlying bonds will lose the interest payments from the investment and will be forced to reinvest in a market where prevailing interest rates are lower than when the initial investment was made.  NOTE: High yield bonds are subject to additional risks such as increased risk of default and greater volatility because of the lower credit quality of the issues.  

 

CDs are insured by the FDIC, an independent agency of the U.S. Government, up to a maximum of $250,000 (including principal and accrued interest) for all deposits held in the same insurable capacity (e.g. individual account, joint account, IRA etc.) per CD depository. Investors are responsible for monitoring the total amount held with each CD depository. All deposits at a single depository held in the same insurable capacity will be aggregated for the purposes of the applicable FDIC insurance limit, including deposits (such as bank accounts) maintained directly with the depository and CDs of the depository. For more information visit the FDIC website at  www.fdic.gov.

 

S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged, market value-weighted index of 500 stocks generally representative of the broad stock market.  An investment cannot be made directly in a market index.

 

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