Background
Wetstone, Barrie K. was born on May 8, 1938 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Barrie K. Wetstone
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Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1960). Columbia University (Bachelor of Laws, 1963). New York University (Master of Laws in Taxation, 1964).
Career
Worked at Sorokin Sorokin Gross Hyde, & Williams Professional Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) specializing in General Practice including Administrative, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Banking, Bankruptcy Reorganizations and Loan Workouts, Construction, Computer, Corporation, Employment, Estate Planning, Family, Insurance, Employment, Legislative Practice, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Negligence, Pension and Profit Sharing, Probate, Real Estate, Secured and Unsecured Lending, Securities and Taxation Law. Trials and Appeals in all State and Federal Courts. Admitted to the bar, 1963, Connecticut.
Company-Author: "Estate Planning by Lifetime Charitable Giving Under the 1976 Tax Reform Acting," Chartered Life Underwriter Journal, January 1978.
Lecturer in Taxation, Continuing Legal Education, 1975. Lecturer, Forty-First New York University Annual Institute on Federal Taxation, 1982.
Member of Adjunct Faculty, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1980-1982. President, Simsbury Light Opera Company, 1980-1982, 1992-1993.
Member: Hartford County (Member, Internal Revenue Service Bar Liaison Committee, 1967-1969), Connecticut (Chairman, Bar Association Liaison with Accountants Committee, 1969-1972).
Member, Tax Section, Executive Committee, 1990-1991) and American (Member, Committee on Taxation, 1967) Bar Associations. History: Sorokin Sorokin Gross Hyde & Williams Professional Corporation is a medium-sized (21-attorney) law firm with one office in downtown Hartford, one in Simsbury, Connecticut, and one in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The firm was formed in 1989 through the merger of Sorokin & Sorokin Professional Corporation and Gross, Hyde & Williams, one of the oldest continuous law partnerships in Connecticut.
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Member: Hartford County (Member, Internal Revenue Service Bar Liaison Committee, 1967-1969), Connecticut (Chairman, Bar Association Liaison with Accountants Committee, 1969-1972). Member, Tax Section, Executive Committee, 1990-1991) and American (Member, Committee on Taxation, 1967) Bar Associations.
