Areas of Practice
• Banking
• Business Development
• Corporate & Tax Law
• Estate Planning & Elder Law
• Financial Law
• Health Law
• Real Estate

Articles, Award & Activities
• Rated in 2009 as among the Top 5% of Upstate New York Attorneys
• Special Counsel, The Hudson Valley Center for Innovation, Inc.
• Rated in 2007 as among the Top 5% of Upstate New York Attorneys
• Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Federal Taxation, Torts and
Professional Responsibility.
• Lecturer, "Estate Planning & Medicaid" (Vanacore, DeBenedictus,
DiGiovanni & Weddell).
• Lecturer, "New Tax Laws" (Orange County Chamber of Commerce).
• Lecturer, "Estate Planning" (Mid Hudson CPA's CPE credit seminars).
• Lecturer, "Estate Planning" (Ulster County Chartered Life Underwriters).
• Lecturer, "Estate Planning for Senior Citizens" (Chemical Bank).
• Lecturer, "Estate Planning and Limited Liability Companies" (Citibank).
• Lecturer, "Limited Liability Companies" and Estate Planning under the
Tax Relief Act of 2001" (Hudson Valley Estate Planning Council).
• St. John's Law Review, 1969.

Memberships
• Orange County Bar Association (Chairman, Tax Committee)
• New York State Bar Association (Member, Tax Committee on Estates and
Trust and Tax Committee on CLE and Pro Bono)
• American Bar Association (Member, Taxation Section)
• National Health Lawyers Association

Bar Admissions
• New York - 1972
• U.S. Tax Court – 1972
• U.S. District Court,
Southern District of New York - 1975
Northern District of New York -1975
Eastern District of Wisconsin - 1975
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit - 1975
• U.S. Supreme Court - 2005

Education
• New York University School of Law (L.L.M. in Taxation)
• St. John's University School of Law (J.D.)
• Queens College of the City University of New York (B.A.)

Born
• Bronx, New York