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Christina Panzarella

Christina Panzarella

Featured Lawyer

Estate Planning Law

2893 Long Beach Rd, Oceanside, NY 11572-3113

Ms. Panzarella has been a practicing attorney for over 23 years. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John?s University in 1989, with cum laude honors. She then obtained her Juris Doctor from Loyola University School of Law in 1993, with Law Review honors and she also served as the Casenote/Index Editor for the Loyola Law Review. She has been admitted to practice law in the State of New York, Washington D.C. and the State of Louisiana. She began her legal career in 1993 as a trial lawyer for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company during which time she defended over 1,000 personal injury lawsuits. In 2004 she began her private practice. Since 2004 she has successfully handled hundreds of legal matters for her clients in the areas of Probate & Administration of Estates, Estate Planning, Trust Law, Real Estate ? Residential and Commercial, Personal Injury, Commercial Litigation, Business Formation and Dissolution, Landlord/Tenant, Corporate Law, Contract Law and Legal Name Changes. She has represented clients in the Civil, Supreme and Surrogates Courts of Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Manhattan and Staten Island.

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Clifford Meirowitz

Estate Planning Law

450 7th Ave, STE 1908, New York, NY 10123

Clifford A. Meirowitz was chair of the New York County Lawyer?s Association pro bono Elder Law Project and the past chair of the New York County Lawyer's Association Elder Law Committee. Mr. Meirowitz is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies where he teaches a course in Trusts and Estates and the NYU Wagner School of Lifelong Learning where he teaches an Elder Law class. Mr. Meirowitz is a mentor attorney to the New York Law School Elder Law Clinic. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the New York State Bar Association?s Elder Law Section, where he was a member of the Executive Committee and past vice chair of the subcommittee, Persons Under Disability, and was a past member of the New York City Bar?s Committee on Legal Problems of the Aging. He was named as a 2009 New York Superlawyer. Mr. Meirowitz was appointed in 2004 by the Chief Judge of New York State to serve on the Commission on Fiduciary Appointments. Mr. Meirowitz is a founding member of the New York Presbyterian Hospital's Planned Giving Advisory Council. Mr. Meirowitz testified before the New York City Council Joint Committees on Aging and Health regarding resources available to seniors in New York City. He has chaired and / or presented at various Continuing Legal Education classes for the New York County Lawyers? Association, New York State Bar Association and the City Bar. He has received numerous appointments as court evaluator, guardian and attorney for the alleged incapacitated person in Guardianship proceedings and appointments as Guardian Ad Litem in Surrogate?s Court proceedings.

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Curtis Anderson

Curtis Anderson

Distinguished Lawyer

Estate Planning Law

1426 6th Ave, Huntington, WV 25701, USA

Mr. Anderson is the managing partner and President of Edwards, Klein, Anderson & Shope, LLC, focusing his practice in the areas of estate planning and probate administration as well as federal taxation and business law. Mr. Anderson is licensed to practice law in all courts in the states of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, in addition to the U.S. Tax Court, and the Southern District Court of West Virginia, Fourth Circuit. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Bar Associations in addition to being on the Trust and Probate Committee for the State of Ohio and West Virginia, the Greater Huntington Estate Planning Council, and is a frequent speaker on the subject of estate planning. Mr. Anderson has served twice as the Chairman of the Board for the Foundation for the Tri-State Community, has previously served on the Chesapeake, Ohio, School Board by judicial appointment, and is currently the vice-president of the Lawrence County , Ohio Department of Health.

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Daniel Bernard

Daniel Bernard

Featured Lawyer

Estate Planning Law

45 NY-25A a2, Shoreham, NY 11786, USA

Daniel R. Bernard focuses his practice on estate planning, trust and estate administration, estate tax planning, business succession planning, and estate litigation, with an emphasis on estate planning for snowbirds. In fact, Dan literally wrote the book on estate planning for snowbirds, which you can download for free from this site. Dan’s philosophy on estate planning can be described in three words: originality, efficiency, and quality. Originality, in that Dan does not create cookie cutter assembly line style estate plans, where clients are fit into one of two plans the firm has on file. Rather, Dan creates a unique estate plan for each client that fits each client’s unique life. Efficiency, Dan values both his client’s time and money. So, he endeavors with every estate plan to preserve both of these precious resources. Quality, highest quality counsel and representation is the only counsel Dan supplies. Dan has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and Newsday in articles related to estate planning and taxation issues. Dan has been a guest on the “Ask the Attorney” show, the “Dead Celebrity Podcast,”, the “Law You Should Know” radio show and podcast, and The Real Estate Law Podcast to discuss estate planning for snowbirds. Dan holds an advanced law degree, a Master of Laws in Taxation, from New York University School of Law. This allows Dan to better assist clients with advanced estate tax planning. Dan received his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law-Newark, where he served as the Senior Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Record. While in law school, Dan worked as a student attorney in the Rutgers Federal Tax Clinic and interned in the Tax Court of New Jersey and the Morris County Surrogate Court. After completing law school, Dan served a one-year clerkship with the Honorable Barbara C. Stolte in the New Jersey Middlesex County Family Court. Prior to law school. Dan earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Temple University, where he double majored in finance and economics. Dan is admitted to practice law in New York, Florida, and New Jersey.

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Daniel Cherkassky

Estate Planning Law

3212 Westminster Avenue, Dallas, TX 72505

Dan is a founding member and partner of Dean Powell, PLLC. Dan graduated Austin College (Sherman, Texas) in 2001. In 2004, Dan graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law. After positions with the United States Small Business Administration and a Dallas-based Law Firm, Dan began working in the Oil and Gas Industry. He worked for several years in land services, before co-founding a nationwide Oil and Gas Law Firm. Then, he joined Katey Powell Stimek and Eric Dean to form Dean Powell, PLLC. Dan prides himself on creating and maintaining relationships with Dean Powell clients. When you work with Dan, you are working with family.

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