Meet our September 2018 Oahu “Tea & Talk” Speaker

WHEN: Thursday, September 13, 2018 from 2pm to 4pm

WHERE: Oahu Country Club (150 Country Club Road, Honolulu, HI 96817)

TOPIC: “Estate Planning”

TICKETS: http://bit.ly/2JI8hUf *

FACEBOOK RSVP & INVITE FRIENDS: http://bit.ly/2LmXxPS

*Members & first time ACN event attendees please email Chauntel.Cannon@sterlingadministration.com for a complimentary ticket.

MEET OUR SPEAKER:

Stephen Yim – Estate Planning Lawyer

Stephen B. Yim is a sole practitioner concentrating in the areas of estate planning, wills, trusts, supplemental needs planning for families who have children with disabilities, charitable tax planning, estate and gift tax planning, and estate administration. 

A graduate of Punahou School, Stephen received his undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Puget Sound, his law degree (J.D.) from Santa Clara University, and his masters of law degree in Taxation (LL.M) from the University of Denver, Graduate Tax Program. 

Prior to entering the private practice of law, Stephen worked as the Senior IRS estate and gift tax attorney in Honolulu.  He also served as law clerk to Judge Daniel G. Heely, and as a Tax Associate with the Public Accounting Firm of Coopers & Lybrand.

Stephen served as an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law where he taught the estate planning course, the University of Hawaii Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Accounting Program, and Hawaii Pacific University Masters of Business Administration program where he taught estate planning, and estate and gift taxation.

He provides presentations and articles related to estate planning and estate and gift taxation to various groups such as the Hawaii Bar Association – Estate & Gift Tax Section, Hawaii Society of Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents, Hawaii Society of Public Accountants, The Maui Estate Planning Council, and the Oahu Estate Planning Council.

He is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association, the estate planning probate section of the Hawaii Bar Association, the elder law section of the Hawaii Bar Association, and the Academy of Special Needs Planners.  He served as Chairman of the Estate Planning & Probate Section of the Hawaii Bar Association and Chairman of the Estate & Gift Tax Committee of the Hawaii Bar Association.

Stephen has served as a board member and part president of the board of directors of Catholic Charities-Elderly Services and served as a board member of the ARC in Hawaii. 

Stephen has been selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers In America® for the 2010 – 2016 editions in the field of Trust and Estates.  He was recognized in Honolulu Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in Hawaii in the field of Trusts and Estates, 2010 – 2016, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (“ACTEC”).  ACTEC is a National organization of trust and estate lawyers and law professors who have been elected by their peers in recognition of having made outstanding contributions to the practice of estate and trust law.

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