Areas of Practice

Bar Admissions

  • California

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Education

  • J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1999
  • B.A., cum laude, UCLA, 1996

Memberships

  • Third Vice-Chair, LACBA, Taxation Section, Executive Committee

    Chair, LACBA, Taxation Section, Executive Committee, Estate and Gift Division, 2009 – 2011; Vice-Chair 2007 – 2009

    Member, LACBA, Trusts and Estates Section, Executive Committee, 2004 – 2007

    Member, ProVisors Professionals Network Group
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Stephanie Zaffos
Of Counsel

A member of Venable’s tax and wealth planning group, Stephanie Zaffos advises clients in all phases of estate planning including trust administration, gift and generation-skipping tax planning and charitable planned giving. She is also experienced in complex estate planning strategies, comprised of formation of FLPs, GPs, and LLCs; sales to grantor trusts; and gift planning for high-net-worth clients.

Early in her career, Ms. Zaffos worked as a senior associate for the legal department of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Through this position, Ms. Zaffos gained firsthand experience in complex tax issues, Section 174 research expenditures, and Section 41 research and experimentation tax credits.