Jim is admitted to practice the Iowa and Illinois and is a member of the American, Iowa, Illinois, Rock Island County, Scott County and Muscatine County Bar Associations. He is an "A" rated lawyer in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. He is included in "Best Lawyers in America" under Tax Law and Employee Benefits Law and in "Leading Illinois Attorneys" under Trusts & Estate Planning Law, Tax Law, and Small Business Law, and Illinois Super Lawyers. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and serves on its employee benefits in estate planning committee and on its charitable planning and exempt organizations committee, a Fellow of the Iowa State Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.Mr. Nepple is an author and frequent speaker on taxation, estate planning, business entities, and retirement plans for the Tax Section and Real Property and Probate & Trust Section of the American Bar Associa¬tion, Ameri¬can Agricultural Law Association, Law Education Institute, Illinois Bar Association, and Iowa Bar Association. He is Past Chair of the American Bar Association's Business Cooperatives and Agricultural Tax Committee of the Tax Section, and a member of the Estate and Gift Committee of the Tax Section. He is also a member of the American Bar Association's Real Property Probate and Trust Section and the Business Law Section. He is the Past Chair of the Illinois Bar Association's Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Council and Past Chair of the Federal Taxation Section Council, Past Chair of the Taxation Section of the Iowa State Bar Association, Past President of Quad City Estate Planning Council, and Past Chair of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry's Tax Committee. Prior experience includes a tax accountant position with the public accounting firm of Ernst & Young in Chicago, Illinois.