Southfield,
Michigan
James P. Spica is the principal author of several Michigan statutes, including the Personal Property Trust Perpetuities Act (2008 PA 148). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, currently attached to the Restatement of Law Third Conflict of Laws Members Consultative Group, and a commissioner of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC), currently on the Uniform Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates Drafting Committee. Mr. Spica was the American Bar Association (ABA) Advisor to the ULC's Uniform Directed Trust Drafting Committee and served on the ad hoc committee of the ABA's Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section that drafted the Section's response to the Treasury Department's request (in IRS Notice 2011-101) for comments on the tax implications of trust decanting. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He is an ACTEC CLE presenter and was an invited presenter at the 2022 Tulane/ACTEC Academic Symposium on Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates held at the Tulane University School of Law. Mr. Spica is a past Chairperson of the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the State Bar of Michigan, the inaugural recipient of the George Gregory Award for outstanding service to the Section, and a former member of the ICLE Probate and Estate Planning Advisory Board. He clerked for Hon. Richard C. Wilbur on the U.S. Tax Court in 1985 and from 1989 to 2000, taught jurisprudence, taxation, and trusts and estates as an assistant and (later) associate professor of law at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he was tenured in 1996.
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