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James S. Aussem, is a shareholder with Cavitch, Familo & Durkin, LPA, a member of its board of directors and chair of the Business Practice Group. Mr. Aussem’s practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions as well as succession planning, and estates and trusts.
Mr. Aussem is a frequent speaker, facilitator, and instructor for many professional organizations on topics such as business succession, estate planning, insurance, trusts and estates. He has spoken at the Cleveland Estate Planning Institute, the AICPA Advanced Planning Institute, the Cleveland Tax Institute, the Ohio Accounting Show, the Ohio Society of CPA’s Annual Tax Seminar, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, Cleveland Marshall College of Law and the Northern Ohio Planned Giving Day among other organizations.
Active in many professional civic and professional organizations, Mr. Aussem is a director of the Cleveland Society of Financial Service Professionals, a member of the National Society of Financial Service Professionals Membership Committee and serves on the Planned Giving Committees of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the American Cancer Society, and Baldwin-Wallace College, which in 2004 presented him with its Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also a member of the American, Ohio, and Cleveland Metropolitan bar associations and the Estate Planning Council of Cleveland. He was chosen as One of America's Best Lawyers in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
After receiving his Juris Doctor degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1975, Mr. Aussem was a tax attorney for Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young). He worked his way through undergraduate school being employed in the securities industry, as well as in the trust department of the former National City Bank. He graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. |
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