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Barbara A. Sloan graduated from the George Washington University in 1972 and received a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1974. After pursuing a career in psychology, she graduated with honors from the Washington College of Law of American University in 1988, where she was elected to the Washington College of Law Honor Society. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York.
Ms. Sloan practiced law in Washington, DC before moving her practice to New York in 1998 and joining McLaughlin & Stern in 2000. Her practice relates principally to estate planning, the administration of estates and trusts, trustee and beneficiary litigation, business succession planning and tax-exempt organization work, focusing particularly on private foundations and public charities.
She is a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association, where she is co-chair of the Committee on Committees and a member of the Section Advisory Board, and of the Tax Section, where she is incoming chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee and last retiring chair of the Tax Practice Management Committee.
Ms. Sloan is chair of the Estate and Gift Taxation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a member of the American Law Institute and the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. She lectures and publishes nationally on a variety of estate planning topics and was until recently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she taught estate and gift taxation.
She is a member of the Professional Advisory Council of the Central Park Conservancy and the Museum of Art and Design Professional Advisory Committee. She has also served as an officer and director of numerous civic and charitable organizations, and is currently a Director and the Secretary of the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, and a Director of the Kaufman Center and of the New Group. She delivered the American Trollope Society 2001 Annual Lecture on Selected Problems in the Victorian Law of Inheritance and Their Effect on the Lives of Women. | 