John H. Draper, IV, Director

Trusts & Estates, Immigration Law, Corporate Law
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Mr. Draper is a member of the Trusts & Estates and Immigration Law teams at Paul Frank + Collins. Mr. Draper’s trusts and estates practice includes sophisticated estate planning for individual clients, including estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. He also advises individual and institutional fiduciaries on all aspects of the administration of trusts and estates, including:

•    representation in all matters of probate court;
•    estate tax compliance, including preparation of estate tax returns;
•    general advice on administration issues;
•    post-mortem planning, and reformation of instruments.

In his immigration practice, Mr. Draper represents U.S. employers seeking to hire key non-U.S. citizens. Such representation often begins with pre-recruitment advice on immigration strategies and options, and may proceed through obtaining temporary and then permanent (“green card”) immigration status for the client’s employees.  

Mr. Draper assists investors making their first entrée into the U.S. marketplace. He has successfully represented many individuals in obtaining permanent resident status as investors, multinational managers and executives, and as professional and skilled workers.

Mr. Draper also provides general corporate and commercial representation.

EDUCATION:
Middlebury College, A.B., 1987
Suffolk University Law School J.D. (cum laude), 1990

BAR ADMISSIONS:
State of Vermont, 1991
U.S. District Court, State of Vermont, 1992

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Bar Association
Vermont Bar Association
Chittenden County Bar Association
American Immigration Lawyers Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Leadership Champlain Graduate
Former Board Member, Champlain Senior Center

PUBLICATIONS:

• Author, “Warrantless Searches of Household Garbage-California v. Greenwood” 23 Suffolk University Law Review 118, 1989

• Author, “Double Jeopardy Does Not Bar Resentencing After Sentence Reversed on Procedural Ground-Lockhart v. Nelson”, 23 Suffolk University Law Review 882, 1989