Rocco J. Labella
Member
Email: rlabella@ferrolabella.com

Practice Areas: Estate Planning and Administration; Corporation Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Taxation Law; Real Estate Law.

Admitted: 1985, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1989, New York

Law School: New York University (J.D., 1985; LL.M., Taxation, 1988)

College: Duke University, A.B., class honors, magna cum laude, 1982

Member: New Jersey State (Member, Taxation Section and Real Property, Probate and Trust Section) and American (Member, Business Law and Taxation Section) Bar Associations; Bergen County Estate Planning Council (Officer, 2004-); Duke University Alumni Advisory Admissions Committee.

Biography: Councilman, Clark Township, 1991-1993. Co-Author: "Tax Court Rebuffs IRS Attack on Annual Exclusion Gifts," 148 N.J.L.J. 794, 1997; "Crummey Powers Survive Attack by IRS: A Test Case," LI, No. 5, Journal of the American Society of CLU & ChFC, page 84, September 1997.

Reported Cases: Estate of Lieselotte Kohlsaat v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, T.C. Memo 1997-212; Schlumberger Industries, Inc. v. Borough of Avalon, 252 N.J. Super. 202 (App. Div. 1992), certification denied 130 N.J. 8 (1992), Certification denied 180 N.J. 8 (1992).

Transactions: Represented Clark Township in the formation of the State's first joint municipal recreation commission which operates a golf course erected on a redeveloped Brownfield's property.

Born: Newark, New Jersey, July 31, 1960

ISLN: 905691020