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What You Need to Know about Freeze Partnerships

By Andrew L. Baron What is a preferred freeze partnership? A preferred freeze partnership is a partnership that has two distinct classes of ownership interest: ...

June 14, 2019

A Primer on Key Estate Planning Issues for High Net Worth Individuals | Meltzer Lippe

By Avi Z. Kestenbaum The first and most important fact surrounding estate planning for high net worth individuals is that individuals are living longer due ...

June 14, 2019

Spotlight on Withdrawal Liability

By Jonathan D. Farrell A multiemployer pension plan (otherwise known as Taft-Hartley plan) is a pension plan created by a collective bargaining agreement between a labor ...

June 11, 2019

Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees

By Richard M. Howard Introduction: What Is An Exempt And A Non-exempt Employee Perhaps the worst mistake an employer can make is to classify a non-exempt ...

May 23, 2019

Sexual Harassment Prevention Legislation Update for NYC Employers

Further to our prior alerts regarding legislation prohibiting sexual harassment, employers in New York City should be aware that the required employee anti-harassment training provision ...

April 23, 2019

Trusts & Estates Magazine: Document Retention for the Modern Trusts and Estates Practitioner

By David A. Bamdad and Christopher J. Clarke

April 23, 2019

Why Convert a Corporation Into an LLC?

By David J. Heymann One of the primary reasons that people decide to convert a corporation into a Limited Liability Company or LLC is to add flexibility in ...

April 17, 2019

NYSBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Journal: Common Law Decanting Is Alive and Well

By David A. Bamdad For 25 years after the enactment of Estates, Powers & Trusts Law 10-6.6 (EPTL), commonly referred to as New York’s decanting ...

April 17, 2019

Trusts & Estates Magazine: Safe and Secure

Avi Z. Kestenbaum, co-chair of Meltzer Lippe’s Trust & Estates practice group, discusses some constants in an unstable world.

January 3, 2019

Trusts & Estates Magazine: A Tale of Two Generations – How a Millennial and a Gen Xer view their law practice.

New estate-planning attorneys may see the practice differently from those who’ve been out a while. Here are the perspectives of one recently admitted attorney (Joy ...

December 1, 2018