Michael P. Thomas
MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton
Michael P. Thomas is a Partner with MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton LLP. He assists individuals, closely held companies, and larger entities on a wide variety of estate planning, estate and trust administration, wealth transfer, succession planning, tax, and business matters.
Mike routinely assists clients with the design and implementation of both basic and complex estate plans that focus on accomplishing the client's individual objectives and minimizing the related tax consequences. He works closely with individual and corporate fiduciaries throughout estate and trust administrations. Mike has experience advising clients on a wide variety of sophisticated business transactions, employee benefit plan matters, corporate governance questions, and business/succession planning issues. He has also worked with non-profit organizations on a number of different tax and corporate matters.
In addition to clients residing in western Pennsylvania, Mike regularly works with clients located throughout the state of Florida.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Florida
- Georgia
- State Bar of Georgia
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Tax Court
- English
- Partner
- MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton
- Current
- Dickinson School of Law
- J.D.
- Honors: cum laude, Woolsack Honor Society
- Juniata College
- B.S. | Accounting
- Pennsylvania Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers
- Estate Planning Council of Erie
- Member
- Current
- Erie County Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Activities: Estates & Trusts Section Leadership Committee
- American Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Florida Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Trusts & Estates, Regional Cancer Center
- Legal Potpourri: Answers to Nonprofit Legal Questions You Didn't Know You Had, Erie Maritime Museum