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THOMAS D. GLASCOCK is an attorney in the Corporate, Real Estate, Trusts and estates Practice Groups at the law firm of Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo, Cohn & Terrana, LLP. Mr. Glascock concentrates his legal practice representing numerous businesses on various legal and business planning matters, including purchasers/sellers and lessors/lessees in commercial real estate matters, and individuals in estate planning and probate matters. He has significant experience working with corporations and limited liability companies in various organizational and transactional matters. Mr. Glascock also represents leading real estate developers, property managers, and real estate investors on various commercial estate matters. His trusts and estates practice involves both assisting individuals in their planning needs and working with businesses to prepare for and satisfy their business and succession planning needs. Mr. Glascock is admitted to practice law in the state of New York, the District of Columbia and the state of North Carolina. He earned his B.A. degree from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo, and his M.B.A. degree from the University Tennessee-Knoxville, where he was a Berkline MBA fellow and a John C. Cox Memorial MBA fellow. Mr. Glascock has served as a speaker at numerous professional events, and has written numerous white papers and professional articles. JEFFREY S. GREENER is a partner in Rivkin Radler, LLP's Trusts, Estates and Taxation Practice Group. Mr. Greener concentrates his practice on protecting, preserving and passing on wealth. This encompasses estate and business succession planning, elder law and asset protection. In addition to drafting wills, trusts, health care directives, shareholder, partnership and buy-sell agreements and durable powers of attorney, Mr. Greener also counsels clients on a broad range of legal and financial issues, such as Medicaid planning, retirement distributions, real property transfers, probate and estate administration. He has extensive experience in the administration of decedents' estates, IRS audits and other tax controversies, business formations and dissolutions, and corporate, partnership and limited liability company creation and maintenance. Mr. Greener also organizes and represents charitable organizations. He is a frequent lecturer on the topics of estate, retirement, and business planning. Mr. Greener serves on the board of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America. AVI Z. KESTENBAUM is a partner with the Long Island, NY, firm of Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP, where he is co-chair of the Trusts & Estates Department, and practices in the areas of domestic and international trusts and estates, taxation, asset preservation, business planning, charitable planning and tax-exempt organizations. He is also an adjunct tax professor at Hofstra University School of Law and the Baruch College MBA Program teaching courses in Federal Income Taxes, Gift and Estate Taxes and State and Local Taxes. Selected to Class of 2011 "40 Under 40" in Long Island Business News' annual tribute to Long Island's best and brightest, Mr. Kestenbaum has been quoted in Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, and other national news publications and has written many articles in leading national estate planning and tax journals, including, but not limited to: "The Beneficiary Defective Inheritor's Trust: Is It Really Defective?"- Steve Leimberg's LISI Estate Planning Newsletter #1730 (Dec. 14, 2010); "A Practitioner's Risk Assessment Checklist ”-Steve Leimberg's LISI Estate Planning Newsletter #1636 (May 5, 2010); "Risk Assessment", Trusts and Estates, April 2010; "It's Personal," Trusts and Estates, April 2009; "True Counselors," The New York Law Journal, Special Trusts and Estates Section, January 2009; "Numerous Pension Act Changes Affect Charitable and Estate Planning," Practical Tax Strategies, April 2007; "Know the Differences: A Guide to Charitable Contribution Deductions," Trusts and Estates, May 2006; "The New Age of Corporate Governance for Nonprofit Organizations," Journal of Taxation of Exempts, August 2005; "Use Disclaimers to Add Flexibility and Hindsight to Estate Plans," Practical Tax Strategies, June 2005; "Proposed Revisions to the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act," Estate Planning Journal, February 2005; "Duties and Liabilities of Nonprofit Directors and Officers," Estate Planning Journal, May 2004. Several additional articles will be published soon in leading national tax and estate planning journals. He has lectured for many prestigious professional organizations, including, but not limited to: the "Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute"; "Ed Slott's Master Elite Program"; the "American Bar Association"; the “Estate Planning Council of New York”; and the “New York State CPA Society, Annual Estate Planning Conference”; and for and to many nonprofit institutions on a variety of topics relating to domestic and international tax, estate and charitable planning, asset preservation, tax-exempt organizations and special needs planning. He earned his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Touro College, J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School and LL.M. degree in Taxation from the University of Miami School of Law where he received academic scholarships at each of these universities. KENNETH H. RYESKY is a sole practitioner in East Northport, New York, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of taxation, estate planning and business law. Prior to going into the private practice of law, Mr. Ryesky served as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, Manhattan District. He teaches business law and taxation courses at Queens College of the City University of New York. Mr. Ryesky has written several articles on taxation, and has testified at IRS regulatory hearings. He is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Ryesky earned his B.B.A. and J.D. degrees at Temple University, his M.B.A. degree at La Salle University, and his M.L.S. degree at Queens College CUNY.
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