About Wayne R. Kramer

Wayne R. Kramer has over 45 years of experience in his practice areas of Tax, Real Estate, Estate Planning, Administration and Trusts, and Corporate and Transactional. He represents individuals as well as a wide variety of small businesses and large companies. Mr. Kramer has a sound understanding of the law and is problem solver. He searches for 'common ground' between parties in conflict and finds the counseling aspect of law to be the most rewarding. He has provided guidance to individuals, small businesses, and large companies through difficult times as well as in periods of growth and prosperity.

Mr. Kramer assists his clients in a myriad of business and tax issues and provides them with much predictability and guidance as they navigate through the complexities of the ever-changing tax and other laws and as they work with state and local authorities who regulate and implement those laws. Mr. Kramer has extensive experience in taxation and has represented clients with regard to many issues and before various administrative bodies, including the Tennessee Department of Revenue and Tennessee State Board of Equalization. Those areas of law include primarily the following:

•Ad valorem real and tangible personal property tax
•State and local sales and use tax
•Real property and general corporate matters
•Commercial and business transactions
•Estate planning and administration

CLASSES & SEMINARS

•Speaker, National Business Institute
•Speaker, Lorman Education Services
•Speaker, Knox County Estate Planning Council
•Speaker, Institute of Management Accountants relative to Tennessee Sales and Use Tax, Ad Valorem real and tangible personal Property Tax, and Federal Estate and Tennessee Inheritance Tax matters

HONORS & AWARDS

•Selected for Inclusion in Best Lawyers in America
•Selected for Inclusion in Mid-South Super Lawyers
•Selected for Inclusion in The Best 150 Lawyers in Tennessee
•Best Lawyers 2013 Lawyer of the Year in Trusts & Estates
•Received the Top Attorney Award in Corporate Law, Estate Planning/Trusts and Taxation from City View, 2012
•AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell

CIVIC & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

•First Presbyterian Church, Knoxville
•Member, Board of directors, The Melrose Foundation
•Member, Board of Directors, The Rogers Foundation
•Prior Member of the Board of Trustees, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
•fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation
•fellow, Knoxville Bar Foundation

PAST EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS

•Kramer Rayson LLP, Managing Partner, 1996 to 2000

 

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Areas of Law

  • Real Estate
  • Trusts and Estates 1
    • Estate Planning
  • Other 3
    • Tax
    • Administration and Trusts
    • Corporate and Transactional

Practice Details

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  • Firm Information
    Position
    Of Counsel
    Firm Name
    Kramer Rayson LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Representative Cases: Republic Plastics, LP (AAC, Knox County, Tax Years 2004-2006)
    Clean Harbors, Inc. (AJ Hamilton County, Tax Years 2004-2006)
    Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., v. Johnson, 78 S.W.3d 918 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2002)
    Alcoa, Inc. (AJ Blount County, Tax Year 1991)
    Union Carbide Corp. v. Alex
    er, 679 S.W.2d 938 (Tenn. 1984)
    Citizens Real Estate v. Mountain States Development Corporation, 633 S.W.2d 763 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1981)
    Representative Matters: Mr. Kramer recently successfully completed a transaction where the co-owner of a small, closely held business needed significant assistance in the sale of his business interest in that entity to the remaining owners. The relationships among the parties were longst
    ing,
    the nuances of completing the transaction, both from a legal
    human relationship st
    point, were significant.
    He also recently h
    led a complex business transaction where two co-owners of a business sold their interest to a major company. Again, not only were there legal hoops through which the parties needed to move, but the transaction also involved emotion
    the difficulties which often arise in the sale of a business which often rise in the sale of a business which has been developed through years of hard work.
    Resolving similar complex issues among families in Estate Administration matters has been a significant part of Mr. Kramer's practice as well.
    He has also successfully represented clients in a number of tax cases, some of which are identified above.

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1978, Tennessee
    Memberships

    Professional Associations and Memberships

    •Knoxville Bar Association, Member, Board of Directors
    •Tennessee Bar Association, Tax Section
    •Tennessee Bar Association, Corporate Section
    •American Bar Association
    •Knoxville Bar Association, Tax Section, Former Secretary/Treasurer
    •Hamilton Burnett American Inns of Court, Member
    •Knoxville Bar Association, President, 2016 - Present

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    Seattle University of Law, Tacoma, Washington
    Class of 1978
    J.D.
    Other Education
    Perkins School of Theology, Graduate Studies in Religion

    Southern Methodist University - 1975

    Maryville College
    Class of 1974
    B.A.
    cum laude

    Honors: Chairman, Board of Directors, Maryville College, 2011 - 2016
  • Personal Details & History
    Age
    Born in 1952
    Little Rock, Arkansas, December 30, 1952

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Suite 2500, First Tennessee Plaza800 South Gay StreetP.O. Box 629Knoxville, TN 37901U.S.A.

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  • What year was this attorney first admitted to the bar?
    Wayne R. Kramer was admitted in 1978 to the State of Tennessee.
  • Is this attorney Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review rated?
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    Kramer Rayson LLP has 25 attorneys at this location.
  • What year was this attorney's law firm established?
    Kramer Rayson LLP was established in 1948.
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    Wayne R. Kramer is listed in the General Practice section of the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.