JOSEPH G. CORSARO

Joe Corsaro is the founder and Senior Managing Partner of Corsaro & Associates Co., LPA. Joe has over 25 years experience in business and tax planning for closely-held businesses and high-net-worth individuals. As head of the firm, Joe is involved in and oversees all aspects of the firm’s practice areas. Joe’s practice focuses on business and tax planning for corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies; family wealth transfer and business succession planning using a variety of vehicles, such as grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable remainder trusts, self-cancelling installment notes, family limited partnerships and split-dollar agreements; estate planning and probate, asset protection planning; representation of clients in taxable and tax-free acquisitions, dispositions and mergers; representation of clients in IRS controversies, audits and appeals; qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, executive compensation planning and employee fringe benefits; and civil litigation.

In 2004, Joe received the Ohio State Bar Association’s designation as "Certified Federal Tax Law Specialist." The "Certified Federal Tax Law Specialist" designation has been achieved by only a handful of lawyers in the Northeastern Ohio area. To achieve such recognition, a qualified candidate must first be nominated by his peers, meet certain education and experience criteria and pass an extensive certification exam.

In 2008, Joe was named to the list of Ohio SuperLawyers. The SuperLawyer selection process includes peer nominations, a blue ribbon panel review and independent research of candidates. The list of SuperLawyers is published annually in Northern Ohio Live magazine and the SuperLawyers magazine.

Joe received his undergraduate degree from the Virginia Military Institute and graduated magna cum laude with high honors in English. Joe received his law degree from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and graduated cum laude. The focus of Joe’s law school education was in the tax area, including individual taxation, corporate and advanced corporate taxation, partnership taxation and estate and gift taxation.

Joe is licensed to practice before all Ohio courts, the United States Federal Court for the Northern District of Ohio, the United States Tax Court and the Supreme Court of the United States. Joe is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and has presented seminars on various tax and business law topics for organization such as the National Business Institute, Lorman Education Services and the Ohio Society of CPAs.

Joe is a supporter of all Cleveland sports teams but his passion is baseball. He, his wife Susan, and their three children Joe, Katie, and Sarah, reside in Bay Village, Ohio.

Certified Federal Tax Law Specialist

Ohio SuperLawyer, 2008

Ohio Bar Association

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

J.D., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, cum laude

B.A., Virginia Military Institute, magna cum laude

Ohio Supreme Court

United States Tax Court

U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Supreme Court of the United States