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Marcia serves as chair of the firm’s Estate and Succession Planning group. She concentrates her talents on providing counsel to those in need of estate and trust planning and administration, charitable and corporate succession planning. She helps clients analyze and develop sophisticated estate plans and deals with cutting edge planning tools for high net worth individuals and families. Marcia’s representative experience includes corporate control transfers, lifetime and charitable gift planning, post-mortem tax plans and probate court litigation. Marcia serves as an officer and trustee of the Benjamin Rose Institute and as a trustee of the Jewish Community Federation, Hawken School and the City Club of Cleveland Forum Foundation. She is the inaugural chair of the Diamond Advisory Committee of University Hospitals and is their Distinguished Advisor Award winner. She was a member of Leadership Cleveland Class of 1998 and serves as class president. A member of the executive committee and former chair of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Planned Giving Council, Marcia also has served as vice chair of the Women Managing Money Educational Project of the Women’s Community Foundation and was the founding chair of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Jewish Community Federation. In addition, she has served on the board of directors of the Northern Ohio Planned Giving Council and The Montefiore Foundation, and is currently a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, as well as a frequent lecturer and noted author. Marcia has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America in trusts and estates law (2006), has received the Northern Ohio Live Rainmaker Award (2007) and is a member of In Counsel with Women. Marcia is an active member of the American, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations. Marcia was an associate then a partner in a Philadelphia law firm until 1990, when she joined Calfee as a partner. She was named to the firm’s executive committee in 2003. | 