The Jewish Community Federation’s Business Leadership Council hosted its annual Business Leadership Breakfast on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Coblentz partner Gregg Ficks, a Steering Committee member of the BLC, co-chaired and co-hosted the event. The JCF Business Leadership Council’s premier professional networking event was themed “Tech Innovators Inspiring Social Change,” and featured keynote speaker Randi Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media and Editor-in-Chief of Dot Complicated online community. It also included the presentation of the Business Leadership Award, honoring a member of the business community who demonstrates professional and philanthropic leadership, to Bobby Lent.

Coblentz is proud to sponsor the 30th Anniversary American Heart Association Celebrate With Heart Gala on February 27, 2014.  Celebrate with Heart is an annual winemakers’ supper featuring 35 of Wine Country’s best wineries, and benefits critical research necessary for the American Heart Association to accomplish their mission of building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.

Partner Phil Feldman speaks on “After ATRA: Estate Planning in 2013” at the November 7-9, 2013 California Tax Bar and California Tax Policy Conference in San Jose, CA.

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Partner Phil Feldman moderated while partner Jeff Bernstein spoke on a panel discussion for the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund’s Day of Philanthropy 2013.  The October 29th panel discussion featured the topic of Estate Planning 2013 – What’s New.

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Coblentz is pleased to announce its Fifth Annual Women in Conversation Event took place on October 15th, featuring legendary artist and author Linda Ronstadt, in conversation with Julie Greer.

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Family Wealth partner Jim Mitchell joined Michael Krasny on his KQED Forum “The Logistics of Death: What to Do When Someone Dies” – discussing making sense of estate taxes, along with other logistical to-dos when a loved-one passes.

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Family Wealth partner Jim Mitchell spoke on a panel of experts at the Fidelity Charitable Advisor Leadership Forum discussion titled Complex Assets as Charitable Gifts: An Overlooked Tax Strategy for UHNW Clients.  The discussion explored the growing trend of contributing complex assets, such as private equity assets, privately-held C-and S-corp stock, limited partnership interests, and certain restricted stock, to public charities.

Bankruptcy Chair Gregg Ficks will be moderating BASF’s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section presentation on “Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcy As A Game Changer.” The event will be held at Le Meridien Hotel in San Francisco on October 8 from 12 – 1:30 pm. One hour of MCLE credit and lunch will be provided. Click here to register.

On April 2, 2013 Coblentz Partner Jon Bass spoke at the Herbst Theater in conversation with psychologist Daniel Kahneman as part of the City Arts & Lectures series on Art & Politics.

Daniel Kahneman is one of the most influential living psychologists. Along with his late collaborator, Amos Tversky, Kahneman is credited with founding the study of behavioral economics. In 2002, Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on the irrational ways in which humans make decisions about risk. Based on his decades of study with Tversky, Kahneman’s recent book, Thinking Fast and Slow, is an exploration of the psychological basis for reactions, judgments, recognition, choices, conclusions, and much more. Kahneman is a Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Jonathan Bass is a partner at the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP. Bass graduated cum laude from Yale University with a degree in Russian language and literature. He earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1977. He is a long-time advisor to City Arts & Lectures.

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Coblentz is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Women in Conversation Event, featuring ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way in conversation with Pamela Duffy.

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