Seth Slotkin, a partner in Stroock’s Personal Client Services Practice Group, counsels clients in all aspects of the trusts and estates area, including estate planning and estate and trust administration and litigation. He also assists individual clients and families with charitable giving programs, including the creation of private foundations and public charities, and advises young entrepreneurs and executives on succession, tax and estate planning.

Mr. Slotkin has particular expertise concerning the use of business entities, such as limited partnerships and limited liability companies, and sophisticated trusts, such as grantor retained annuity trusts and intentionally defective grantor trusts, in estate plans to produce optimal valuations from a tax perspective and reduce tax liability.

Activities

Co-author, Manning on Estate Planning, 6th Ed. (Practising Law Institute, 2004; updated annually); Member, Trusts and Estates Committee and Co-Journal Chair (2008-2009), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; Member, Trusts, Estates & Surrogate’s Courts Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Member, Planned Giving Advisory Committee, New York Presbyterian Hospital

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1996

New Jersey, 1996

Education

LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2002

J.D., New York University School of Law, 1995

B.A., Emory University, 1992