Steven Jacobson Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Bethesda

Steve Jacobson has been practicing for more than thirty years in the fields of tax, estate planning, estate administration, and business and commercial transactions. Mr. Jacobson has a depth of experience in advising and counseling professional corporations, and represents a broad spectrum of closely-held businesses in their corporate and tax planning matters. He also has extensive experience in business transactions, including the sale and acquisition of businesses, buy-sell transactions between shareholders, and shareholder disputes, and heads the firm’s commercial leasing practice. Mr. Jacobson graduated in 1980 with a B.A. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. in 1984 from the University of Virginia.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Jacobson spent four years in the tax department of the Washington, D.C. office of Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin.Mr. Jacobson has written or co-authored articles and outlines on various sophisticated tax and business planning issues, including co-authoring “Maximizing the Effectiveness of the Annual Gift Exclusion,” Taxes Magazine, March 1992.Mr. Jacobson is a member of the Tax Sections of the Maryland State Bar and the American Bar Association. He is actively involved in a variety of civic organizations including the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, and served on the Board of Directors of Monument Bank. He was pleased to be recognized by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the region’s top estate planners. Mr. Jacobson is admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia.