Attorney Fee Deferrals: Navigating the Evolving IRS Landscape and Current Tax Considerations

Mr. Coleman is the Founding Partner of Greg Coleman Law, bringing more than 30 years of trial and appellate experience in complex, high-stakes litigation. Throughout his career, he has been recognized as a national leader in class actions, products liability, medical practice, personal injury, toxic torts, premises liability, ERISA, drug and medical device litigation, workers' compensation, and complex multi-district matters, representing individuals and classes against some of the largest corporate defendants both in the country and around the world.

Mr. Krause is the Principal of Structured LLC, a settlement consulting firm specializing in the resolution of complex casualty, class action, mass tort, captive and commercial insurance claims. He works with attorneys, insurance carriers, self-insured organizations, captive insurance companies, municipalities, corporations and mediators to develop customized settlement and risk transfer solutions that achieve favorable financial and tax outcomes. Mr. Krause's areas of expertise include structured settlement annuities, attorney fee deferral strategies, IRC §468B Qualified Settlement Fund administration, settlement & special needs trusts, government benefits preservation, and the design of settlement distribution strategies for catastrophic injury and high-exposure claims. He has advised on numerous complex settlements, including high-profile mass tort and catastrophic injury matters. Mr. Krause's experience includes consulting on the NFL Concussion Settlement and the Dr. Larry Nassar–Michigan State University Settlement, where he assisted in developing settlement distribution strategies designed to preserve claimants' government benefits eligibility while protecting settlement proceeds through appropriate trust and financial planning techniques.