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John B. O'Grady
Partner 
One James Center
jogrady@mcguirewoods.com901 East Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030 F: 804.698.2132    |
Mr. O'Grady's practice concentrates on estate and gift taxation, generation-skipping transfer taxes, estate planning, estate administration, and chancery litigation. He is a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the Legislative Committee for the Trusts and Estates Section of the Virginia Bar Association, and past chair of the Virginia State Bar Trusts and Estates Section.
He has served as an adjunct professor at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary where he taught estate planning and wealth transfers. He has also taught estate planning, and estate and gift taxation at Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Private Wealth Services
- Trusts & Estates
- Fiduciary Litigation
- Family Businesses
- Fiduciary Advisory Services
- Nonprofit & Charitable Advisory Services
- Named a Virginia "Super Lawyer," 2008-2011
- Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2003-2012
- Named One of Virginia's "Legal Elite," Virginia Business, Taxes/Estates/Trusts, 2004-2011
- "Changing Existing Trusts: The GST Trap" (co-authored with Jennifer Lee Schooley), Estate Planning, November 2001
- "How Do You Spell GST Tax Relief? E-G-T-R-R-A of 2001," (co-authored with J. King), Probate Practice Reporter, Vol. 13, Number 10, October 2001
- College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law
- Former Adjunct Professor
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Former Adjunct Professor
- Annual Commitments
- Baltimore Estate Planning Council, Recent Tax Developments, Baltimore, MD
- Campbell University, The Trust Advisors Forum, Pinehurst, VA
- Edward Jones CPE/CLE Broadcast, St. Louis, MO
- Financial Planning Association of the National Capital, Richmond, VA
- Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc. ("MICPEL"), Columbia, MD
- Richmond Apartments Owners Association, Richmond, VA
- University of Richmond, Estate Planning Seminar, Richmond, VA
- University of Virginia, Virginia Conference on Federal Taxation, Charlottesville, VA
- Virginia CLE, Advanced Estate Planning and Administration Seminar, Charlottesville, VA
- Virginia CLE Recent Developments in the Law Seminar, Virginia Beach, VA
- Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants ("VSCPA"), Taxation Conference, Richmond, VA
- American Bar Association
- Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
- Program Committee
- Estate Planning Council of Richmond, Virginia
- Trust Administrators Council
- United States Law Firm Group, Inc.
- Virginia Bar Association
- Legislative Committee, Trust and Estates Section
- Virginia State Bar
- Past Chair, Trusts & Estates Section
- Board of Governors, Trusts and Estates Section
- Commonwealth Catholic Charities/Commonwealth Human Services Foundation
- Board of Trustees
- The Gertrude M. Conduff Foundation
- Maymont Foundation
- President 2001-2002
- The Anne Carter & Walter R. Robins, Jr. Foundation
- President
- VCU Massey Cancer Center
- Advisory Board
- The Windsor Foundation
- Vice President
- The Cecil and Edna Hopkins Foundation
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EDUCATION College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia, J.D., 1985
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, B.A., magna cum laude, 1981 ADMITTED Virginia 1985 PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit, Michigan |