Jessica Birnbaum

Practice Areas

Jessica advises her clients, including family offices and multi-generational families, on all aspects of estate planning, including the preparation of wills, trusts, and premarital agreements; the analysis and execution of estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax planning strategies; and the administration of estates and trusts. She also regularly assists clients with trust administration, including effectuating modifications such as trust decantings and nonjudicial settlement agreements when needed. In addition, Jessica represents corporate fiduciaries in trust administration matters, including trust interpretation questions, fiduciary duty issues, and beneficiary disputes. In contested matters, she partners with the firm’s trust litigation team to settle disputes and, when necessary, to seek court resolution. Jessica formerly advised companies on corporate governance and acquisition matters, which gives her invaluable insight into the issues facing clients whose assets include business interests.