Rick O’Neill joined Dickstein Shapiro in March 2000, as counsel in the Tax Practice of the firm’s Corporate & Finance Practice. Mr. O’Neill focuses on federal and state taxation, including income, estate and gift taxation, estate planning, and trust and estate administration, with significant involvement in real estate and general corporate matters. He has handled a wide range of trusts and estate matters, including both estate planning and the probate and administration of trusts and estates. His estate planning activities include lifetime financial, business succession, retirement-related, and testamentary planning with an emphasis on tax considerations, involving planning with respect to stock options, charitable gifts, life insurance, retirement, and asset protection. He also has litigated trust and estate administration matters ranging from routine estate administration to more complex will contests and estate and inheritance tax litigation.

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia

Education

Southern Methodist University, B.B.A., 1972, with high honors
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., 1975, cum laude