Professor Turnipseed is an experienced estate planning and tax advisor. As an attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., he developed and implemented complex tax planning strategies for more than $1 billion in assets. Professor Turnipseed also represented a number of large trust beneficiaries with fiduciary issues. He has expertise in complex domestic and international estate planning, including substantial asset protection.
Prior to joining Covington & Burling, Professor Turnipseed was an estate and gift tax specialist with Deloitte & Touche’s national office. He has an LL.M in Tax, cum laude, and a J.D. from Georgetown University and two graduate degrees from MIT where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. Professor Turnipseed received a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, from Mississippi State University where he was a Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholar.
Professor Turnipseed has written in the areas of trust fiduciary law, spousal property rights upon death, and transfer taxation. He teaches courses in estate and gift taxation, estate planning, wills and trusts, and property.
