Experienced Charlottesville Attorney
James Skeen — Founder
Email James Skeen | Phone: 434.293.9664
Areas of practice
Admitted to practice
Awards
Education
Professional memberships
Biography
Email James Skeen | Phone: 434.293.9664
Areas of practice
- Wills
- Probate
- Taxation
- Estate planning
- Contested wills
- Estate administration
- Trusts and estates
- Asset protection
- Powers of attorney
- Conservation easements
- Estate and gift taxation
- Wealth preservation
- Family business successions
- Federal tax controversies
- Tax audits
- Tax appeals
- Business taxation
- Business law
- Real estate
- Land use
- Business formation
- Closely held business law
- Limited liability company law
- Buying and selling of businesses
- Corporate law
- Partnership law
- Pension and profit sharing plans
- Nonprofit and charitable organizations
- Commercial real estate
- Boundary disputes
Admitted to practice
- District of Columbia, 1978
- Virginia, 1979
- U.S. Tax Court, 1980
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1987
Awards
Education
- Brigham Young University, J.D., cum laude, 1978
- Brigham Young University, M.Acc., 1978
- Brigham Young University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1975
Professional memberships
- Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association
- Virginia State Bar
- American Bar Association
- President, Central Virginia Estate Planning Council, 1988–1989
Biography
- Born in Ogden, Utah
- Fluent in French
- Executive Editor, Brigham Young University Law Review, 1977–1978
- Certified Public Accountant, Utah, 1978
- Trustee, Southern Virginia University, 2001–present
- General Counsel and Executive Board Member, Stonewall Jackson Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, 2010–present
258 East High Street Charlottesville VA 22902 | P: 434.293.9664 | F: 434.293.6690
