Robert E. Friedman

Qualifications and Career Profile

Robert E. Friedman concentrates his practice in estate and tax planning, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxation and the administration of complex estates and trusts.

Associations and Committees

Mr. Friedman is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Bar Association, where he participates in the Section on Real Property, Probate and Trusts Law. He is admitted to practice in New York State and before the United States District Court in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Friedman is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law where he teaches income taxation of estates and trusts.

Mr. Friedman is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy/Adirondack Land Trust, the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks and the Adirondack Landowner Association.

Lectures and Articles

Mr. Friedman is the author of "Effective Estate Planning and Administration in New York" and the co-author of "Planning Opportunities With Living Trusts in New York." Mr. Friedman has lectured on estate planning for the Cambridge Institute, the National Business Institute, the New York State Bar Association and before numerous other professional associations

Education

Mr. Friedman earned his undergraduate degree (A.B., 1965) from Harvard University and his law degree cum laude (J.D., 1975) from Fordham Law School, where he was a member of the Fordham Law Review (1973-1975).