In addition to his extensive trust and estate planning practice, Mr. O'Sullivan has significant experience in non-qualified deferred compensation, qualified retirement and welfare benefit plans for a wide variety of employers, including publicly and privately held companies, hospitals, tax exempt trade associations, churches and governmental entities. This experience includes the design, planning and execution of deferred compensation plans for executives (and the special problems posed by Section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code), qualified defined benefit and defined contribution plans, especially ES0Ps and tax sheltered annuity programs.

Maurice also provides legal and tax advice in the planning and implementation of both current and deferred giving programs for charitable organizations, including charitable remainder and annuity trusts, gifts of stock of closely-held corporations and of life insurance. He has structured and established tax exempt charitable foundations including private foundations, as well as more specialized entities such as self-funded malpractice trusts for hospitals.

Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 1968-92