Karen G. Loulakis heads up the firm’s estate planning department and is of counsel to the firm.
Practice:    Emphasizes estate and gift tax planning, business succession planning and estate administration (including the preparation of Federal and State Gift and Estate Tax Returns) and probate filings.   Estate planning necessarily includes succession planning for businesses, liquidity planning and the creation of various entities to serve client needs.  It also offers clients the opportunity to contemplate and document wishes concerning disability planning.

The practice also includes charitable planning and representation of private and public charities; planning in contemplation of marriage; basic planning for corporations or other business entities; and analysis of litigation positions related to any of her areas of practice.

Education:   She is a 1980 Boston University School of Law  graduate and a 1977 cum laude graduate of Occidental College, in Los Angeles, California.  Following graduation from law school, Karen fine-tuned her skills as a tax practitioner by spending time with a small Washington, D.C. law firm and a national public accounting firm before joining and ultimately becoming a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Tucker, Flyer & Lewis, P.C. heading up its estate planning department.  She founded The Law Office of Karen G. Loulakis located in Great Falls, Virginia in 1995 prior to joining the firm as of counsel in March 2005.

Ms. Loulakis achieved a rating of A-V, the top rating in a peer review system, as published in the printed version of Martindale-Hubbell's Legal Directory.

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Memberships:   Ms Loulakis is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bars. She also maintains membership in the Tax Sections of each Bar Association, and the Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar.  Karen is a member of the American Bar Association and its Sections on Fiduciary Income Taxation and Estate and Gift Taxation.  She is also a former Member of the Estate Planning Counsel of Washington, D.C.

Activities:  Ms. Loulakis is a frequent lecturer on Estate Planning and related matters and is a past instructor, in the areas of (i) Individual Income Taxation and (ii) Estates, Trusts and Probate Administration and in the paralegal program sponsored by George Washington University, Washington, D.C.  Please contact her if you would like her to speak on any of these issues.

Ms. Loulakis may be reached for consultation or for speaking engagements by email at kloulakis@pkc-law.com or by telephone at 703 506 9440 ext 248.