Areas of Practice

• Plan large and complex estates to minimize estate and gift taxes
• Provide administration of estates and trusts
• Represent and advise clients involved in federal estate tax audits and appellate proceedings in controversial cases involving valuation of businesses, fine arts, and other unique assets
• Obtain Internal Revenue Service rulings in estate, gift and generation-skipping tax matters
• Advise and structure business succession and asset protection strategies
• Create offshore trusts and counsel on multi-national tax issues
• Supervise and structure investment portfolios for trusts and family accounts, monitor performance and serve as liaison between client's accountants and investment advisors
• Represent both public and private foundations, and structure charitable gifts to accomplish client's philanthropic goals
• Supervise major contributions used to: establish departments at leading hospitals; fund construction of buildings at universities; and create endowments and scholarship funds both in the U.S. and abroad

Represent

• High net-worth individuals and families in their business and personal matters
• Clients in contested probate and accounting proceedings in the Surrogate's Court
• Clients' estates and trusts and act as executor and trustee
• Clients in the negotiation and preparation of pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and separation agreements
• Private and public charitable foundations

Bar Admissions

• New York; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Legal Career

• Joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP in 1995 after more than 25 years as a partner of the firm of Weitzner, Levine, Hamburg & Chill

Author/Speaker

• Frequent writer and speaker on estate planning subjects
• Professional Activities & Associations
• Member, Trusts and Estates Sections of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Education

• J. D., Cornell Law School (1964), recipient of the Federal Bar Association Award for academic excellence
• B. A., Cornell University (1962)