Manuel, Susan W.

Ed Manigault concentrates his practice in the areas of income and transfer tax planning for high net worth families and their affiliated entities, including trusts, partnerships, and corporations. Ed also represents public charities and private foundations on a variety of tax and non-tax legal issues.

Ed is a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is a member of its Financial Action Task Force committee. Ed is the immediate past chair of the Tax Section of the State Bar of Georgia. Ed is a member of the American Bar Association and a member of both the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law (RPTE) and Tax Sections. Ed currently serves as chair of the Income and Transfer Tax Group of the RPTE Section and as vice chair of the section's Task Force on USA Patriot Act and Gatekeeper Regulation Committee. Ed is a member of three of the RPTE Section's standing committees (Planning, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Groups and Substantive Committees). Ed is also a member of the RPTE Section's Charitable Organizations Committee. He has coauthored or been actively involved in multiple RPTE comments to the Treasury Department on tax regulations and other matters. Ed is a member of the Estate & Gift Taxes, Exempt Organizations, and Individual Income Tax Committees of the Tax Section of the ABA. He is also a member of the Trust Code Steering Committee of the Fiduciary Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association (Estate Planning & Probate Section), and the Atlanta Estate Planning Council, Inc. In addition, he is a member of the Gift Planning Advisory Council of Emory University, a member of the Advisory Committee of Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta (co-chair of the Tax Subcommittee), and a member of the 2008/2009 Philanthropic Advisor Leadership Institute.

Ed has spoken at seminars on tax planning and is the author or coauthor of several articles published in the Journal of Taxation, Estate and Personal Financial Planning, Tax Notes Today, and Probate & Property.