News & Press

On Tuesday September 11, 2012, Daniel Hayward of Gordon, Fouraris & Mammarella, P.A. addressed the North County Estate Planning Council's meeting in San Diego, California, covering the topic "Innovation and Flexibility Under Delaware Trust Law: Experiences from the Front Lines."

David A. Diamond, of Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A. was one of the featured speakers at the September 18, 2012 presentation of The Financial and Estate Planning Council of Metropolitan Detroit, held at the Detroit Yacht Club in Detroit, Michigan.

2012 Delaware Wealth Managers

GF&M is pleased to announce a special recognition appearing in the August, 2012 issue of Delaware Today published by Today Media Inc.

Peter S. Gordon, Director of the Wilmington law firm of Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A was selected for the following honor: "2012 Delaware Wealth Manager".
 

Recently Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A.'s Michael Gordon and Daniel Hayward spoke at the The Delaware Conference for Accountants in Newark. The main purpose of the conference is to help accountants satisfy their CPE requirements. The well-attended conference runs simultaneous sessions of tax and accounting CPE allowing attendees to choose topics depending on the CPE credits needed to satisfy their continuing professional education requirements.

Together in 2012

Peter Gordon spoke this morning at the 39th Annual NAIFA Delaware Conference (“Together in 2012”) at the University of Delaware on the topic of the new 2010 Tax Act.

David A. Diamond, J.D.

Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A. welcomes David Diamond to the law firm. David's practice focuses on the unique aspects of Delaware law, including directed trusts, dynasty trusts, and asset protection trusts.  Prior to joining GF&M, David was a Managing Director and President of J.P. Morgan Trust Company of Delaware. 

Michael Gordon and Daniel Hayward will be co-presenting to the Delaware Bankers Association this Friday April 13th, 2012 on the topic of tax consequences of decanting. An outline of the presentation, "The Tax Consequences of Decanting: A Summary of the Gift, Estate, Income and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Considerations when Utilizing Delaware’s Decanting Statute" is available for download.

Michael and Dan will be presenting the timely topic of "The Tax Consequences of Decanting" to the Wealth Advisory Conference from 10:00-11:00am EST on a conference call for JP Morgan (JPM) colleagues around the country. Micheal is familiar with the group, as he has spoken to the JPM regarding Delaware Trust issues on previous calls.

On Thursday March 8th, GF&M's Michael Gordon was invited to speak at the board meeting of the Southern Delaware Estate Planning Council. The event was held at the Sussex Pines Country Club in Georgetown, DE.

Gale Burnett, Senior of Howard High School in Wilmington Delaware, is taking advantage of the Legal Administrative Assistant Program sponsored in part by the law offices of GF&M. High School students in the Legal Administrative Assistant Program learn the core responsibilities of a legal assistant. These core duties primarily focus on performing and coordinating an office's administrative activities and ensuring that information is disseminated to staff and clients.