Jennifer Shirkey
Company: Flora Pettit
Title: Partner
Email: jes@fplegal.com
p: 540-437-3108
f: 540-437-3101
Jennifer advises on the tax and business aspects of for-profit and non-profit entity startups, as well as their ongoing operations and mergers and acquisitions. She has worked extensively with health care providers and educational institutions on benefits and tax compliance issues. In working with clients, she applies her technical legal expertise to give practical counsel and develop creative strategies to estate planning, employee benefits, and general business challenges. She is a frequent public speaker on tax issues.
Education
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Lexington, Virginia
J.D., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Order of the Coif
Washington and Lee University Law Review, Editorial Board
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, with Distinction, English, 1993
Expertise
Jennifer Shirkey concentrates her practice in estate planning, employee benefits, tax, and business law. She assists families and individuals with their trust and estate needs daily and serves as an Assistant Commissioner of Accounts for Harrisonburg & Rockingham County. In addition, she helps business, non-profit and governmental employers of all sizes navigate their employee benefit plans through the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA. She has particular expertise in the sophisticated area of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and other equity compensation programs.
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