Donna L. Longhouse
Partner
Donna Longhouse practices exclusively in the areas of tax, trusts and estates.
Practice Areas
- Complex tax planning for, and representation of, individuals, businesses, tax-exempt organizations, and trusts and estates; wealth preservation
- Business succession planning
- Representation of individual and corporate fiduciaries
- Trust and estate administration
- Charitable planning
Education
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, LL.M. Taxation, 1994
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., 1993
- University of South Florida, B.A., 1984
Admissions
- The Florida Bar, 1993
- U.S. Tax Court, 1994
Presentations and Publications
- Frequent lecturer and author on gift, estate, generation-skipping transfer and fiduciary income tax issues; wealth preservation; business planning; tax-exempt planning; trust and estate administration; cross-border transactions
- Adjunct Professor of income tax at Stetson University College of Law
Current and Prior Professional Associations
- American Bar Association
- Section of Taxation
- Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law
- The Florida Bar
- Tax Section, Federal Tax Division, Co-Director
- Real Property and Probate Section
- 13th Judicial Circuit Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee, past member
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Tax Law, past co-chair
- Tampa Bay Estate Planning Council, past president
Recognitions
- AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
- Florida Trend’s Legal Elite, 2014
- Florida Super Lawyers since 2012
- Florida Super Lawyers Top 50 Women Lawyers, 2018
- Best Lawyers in America, since 2010
- The Legal 500 United States, 2013 edition, area of Tax, Domestic-East Coast.
Community Service
- Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Past Chair of the Board of Trustees
- University of South Florida Foundation, Trustee
- Leadership Tampa Bay 2016
- The Florida Orchestra, past Board
- Joshua House, past Board
- Children’s Home Society, Florida Southwest Region, past Board
- University of South Florida Alumni Association, Audit and Finance Committee, past member
- University of South Florida, St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences Community Advisory Council
