Richard Colombik, J.D., CPA

Mr. Colombik, a partner at Management Services International, has 40 years of taxation experience as both an award-winning tax attorney and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He was formerly on the tax staff of one of the world's wealthiest families, and he has also been a tax manager at a Big Four accounting firm, the State Bar's liaison to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), vice president of the American Association of Attorney-CPAs, and vice chairman of the American Bar Association's Tax Section of the General Practice Council, as well as the past chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Federal Tax Committee. Mr. Colombik is also a member of the Asset Protection Committee, American Bar Association, and a member of its captive insurance subcommittee. He has also headed the Bar Association Taxation Committees on state, local, and national levels. A best-selling author as well, Mr. Colombik published Keep It, a book on tax planning. He is a member of TLS Marketing and Management Services, LLC, a Puerto Rican limited liability company that provides consulting and tax-planning services. Mr. Colombik has lectured extensively on income taxation and tax planning and has published articles on a national, local, and regional basis. Mr. Colombik has appeared on numerous television shows, hosted a weekly radio show on tax and business planning, and authored more than 100 articles on income taxation, asset protection planning, IRS defense, and estate planning. He has also instructed more than 100 seminars to professional groups, business groups, bar associations, CPA societies, and insurance groups. This is in addition to authoring a published work on business entity structures offered by the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, as well as writing a chapter for The Estate Planning Short Course and Asset Protection Planning. He holds a doctorate in jurisprudence with distinction, and he is an honors graduate of the John Marshall Law School, where he currently serves on its alumni board. He has received a Distinguished Service Award for his work on behalf of his alma mater.