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John W. Powell is a partner of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP and is a member of the firm's Business Transactions & Planning Group. His primary areas of concentration involve individual, corporate and partnership tax and business planning; business succession and estate planning for business owners and executives; estate, gift and transfer tax planning, including family limited partnerships and life insurance planning; and representation of individuals and companies before the Internal Revenue Service in connection with examinations and appeals of audits, and tax litigation in the United States Tax Court. Mr. Powell graduated summa cum laude from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and then earned a Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University School of Law. Mr. Powell is a former Adjunct Professor of Taxation at Robert Morris College where his principal course offering was taxation of partners and partnerships. He is a frequent lecturer for professional programs.Mr. Powell is admitted to practice law before the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of Ohio and in the United States Tax Court. He is a member of the Ohio, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations (Chairman of the Taxation Section in 1990). He is a past President of the Allegheny Tax Society (1994-1995) and a member of the Pittsburgh Tax Club, the Estate Planning Council of Pittsburgh (Director), the Family Firm Institute and the International Association of Financial Planners. Mr. Powell is a past President and current Secretary of the Greater Pittsburgh Business Association and has served for the past ten years as its membership chairman. Mr. Powell previously served for six years on the Board of Directors of the Louise Child Care Center. Before his election in 1993 to the Board of Trustees of the Glenshaw Presbyterian Church (Chairman in 1998), Mr. Powell served for six years as an Elder. In 1991, he was selected to be a trustee of the Glenshaw Presbyterian Church Trust Fund and since 1994 has served as its chairman. | 