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Corey W. Glass advises ultra-high net worth individuals and their families, family offices, and closely held businesses on matters involving tax and estate planning, trust and estate administration, asset protection, and business succession planning, with a particular focus on tax-efficient multi-generational wealth transfer planning strategies. Corey’s practice includes counseling clients through the design, formation and administration of family offices, family investment vehicles, and private trust companies. He advises business owners on planning with qualified small business stock (QSBS) and helps fund managers navigate the complicated federal gift tax issues involved when transferring carried interests in private equity and hedge funds. Corey is well versed in complex gift tax reporting issues and disclosure obligations and represents clients in tax controversies with the Internal Revenue Service.

Before joining Arnold & Porter, Corey worked in the private client services group at EY’s National Tax office, where he advised resident and non-resident individuals with respect to cross-border income and transfer tax planning and tax compliance.

Perspectives

Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 91 Arnold & Porter Lawyers, Names Three as "Lawyers of the Year" and 80 as "Ones to Watch"
Estate Planning Seminar
Presenter, Georgetown University Law Center, Alumni Weekend
The Ghosts of Grantor Trust Past, Present, and Future
Presenter, Advanced Tax Institute, Maryland State Bar Association Tax Section and Maryland Association of CPAs

Recognition

Best Lawyers
"Ones to Watch" Tax Law (Washington, D.C.) (2021-2025)

Credentials

Education

  • LL.M., Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, with distinction
  • J.D., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
  • B.S., Accounting, University of Kansas

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • California

Activities

  • American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute, Class III
  • Chair, Estate Planning Committee, D.C. Bar Taxation Community (2018-2020); Vice Chair (2017-2018)
  • Washington D.C. Estate Planning Council
  • American Bar Association, Real Property, Trusts & Estate Law Section
  • American Bar Association, Taxation Section
  • California Lawyers Associations, Trusts & Estates Section
Overview