Linda B. Hirschson

Practice Areas

Private Wealth Services

Tax

Tax & Business Group

Business Succession Planning

Charitable Planning & Foundations

Estate Planning/Trust & Estate Administration

Family Office Services

International Estate Planning

State & Federal Tax Controversies

Tax-Exempt Organizations & Philanthropy

Career

Linda B. Hirschson Chairs the New York Estate Planning Group and focuses her practice on virtually all aspects of estate planning and administration and is a past member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC). Linda develops estate plans for high net worth individuals, enabling them to dispose of their assets during life and at death in a manner that meets their personal goals and as tax efficient as possible. In the course of doing so, she helps form and administer private foundations and charitable trusts. Linda also is experienced in probate litigation and has authored numerous articles and lectured frequently on estate planning, income taxation and a range of other related topics.

Concentrations:

Gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning

Wealth preservation planning

Estate administration

Individual income tax planning

Estate litigation

Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements

Private foundation and charitable planning

Professional Memberships

Past Regent, American College of Trust and Estates Counsel (ACTEC)

New York Downstate Chair, American College of Trust and Estates Counsel (ACTEC)

Member, N.Y. EPTL-SCPA Legislative Advisory Committee

Past Chair, Trusts and Estates Law Section, New York State Bar Association

Past Chair, Transfer Tax Study Committee, American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC)

Co-Chair, Committee on Governmental Submissions, Real Property Trusts and Estates Section of the American Bar Association

Past Member, Supervisory Council of Real Property, Trusts and Estates Section of American Bar Association

Member, BNA Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Advisory Board

Member, Board of Editors, Warren's Heaton on Surrogates' Courts, Matthew Bender

Past Chair, Committee on Mortimer H. Hess Memorial Lectures, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Chair, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Professional Advisory Council

Member, MOMA Planned Giving Advisory Committee

Personal

LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law, 1973

LL.B., cum laude, Columbia Law School, 1965

A.B., Barnard College, 1962