Paul G. Izzo
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Mr. Izzo has been in private practice, with substantial emphasis on elder law, since 1990. His practice areas include estate planning for incapacity and long term care, appointment of guardians and conservators for incapacitated adults, administration of decedent’s estates, nursing home residents’ rights, representation of small businesses and individuals in state tax matters, and representation of nursing home administrators before health regulatory boards.
From 1985 through 1990, Mr. Izzo was a policy analyst with the Virginia Department of Taxation, handling administrative appeals of sales and use tax and income tax audits, preparing information bulletins, drafting private letter rulings and offers in compromise for the Tax Commissioner, drafting state tax regulations, providing staff support for a comprehensive sales and use tax expenditure study, and during General Assembly sessions, evaluating the fiscal and policy impact of proposed tax legislation.
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1977 with a B.A. in Government, Mr. Izzo was employed as a Management Intern at Central National Bank (now Wachovia Bank), Richmond, through the summer of 1978. He graduated from the University of Richmond law school in 1981.
While in private practice, Mr. Izzo was selected for an internship in long-term care administration at Westminster-Canterbury House, Richmond. This culminated in his sitting for the licensure exam for nursing home administrators in 1985, a license which he has maintained ever since.
Mr. Izzo is a member of the Richmond Bar Association, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Virginia Association of Nonprofit Homes for the Aging, and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Mr. Izzo is a frequent lecturer to nonprofit groups and organizations, health care professionals and the general public on estate planning, nursing home residents’ rights, and the legal concerns of the frail elderly and disabled. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Richmond, on the Advisory Board of the Virginia Center on Aging at Virginia Commonwealth University, and on the Ethics Advisory Committee of the McGuire Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Richmond. He also currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Public Guardianship Program of Senior Connections, the Capital Area Agency on Aging, the Commission for Older Adults of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, and the Multidisciplinary Panel of the Public Guardianship Program of Commonwealth Catholic Charities.
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