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Selected Publications
“Providing for Your Pets,” Town & Country, July, 2002
“Let’s (Not) Go to the Videotape: The Problem with Taping Will Executions,” 1998 (with Robert Abrahams)
“Gross Mistakes,” Town & Country, August, 1998
“Trusts & Estates,” Editorial Advisory Board, 1985-1997
“Healthy, Wealthy and Taxwise,” Town & Country, March, 1995
“The Rich Die Richer — And You Can Too,” William Morrow & Co., 1995
“Thy Will Be Done?,” Town & Country, May and June, 1991
“The Wills of Literary Figures Reflect Lawyer’s Influence,” 1989
“Time Out for the Human Side of Estate Planning,” 1988
“Ménage à Trois in Premarital Agreements,” 1987
“Donating Art,” Art & Auction, November and December, 1986
“Uses of Trusts in Connection with Marital Dissolutions,” 1983
“Estate Planning for Interests in a Closely Held Business,” 1981
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Selected Speaking Engagements
ALI/ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education
CEO and YPO Annual Meetings
Cornell Law School
Coro Fellows
Great Plains Federal Tax Institute
Greenwich Roundtable, The Founder’s Council on Contemporary Philanthropy
Harvard Law School
New York City Bar Association
Practising Law Institute
Southern Federal Tax Institute
The New School University
The New York State Bar Association
The University of Miami Institute on Estate Planning
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Memberships
Professional
New York City Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
The Florida Bar
Civic and Philanthropic
Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) (Chairman)
amfAR (Director)
New York University (Trustee)
The New School (Trustee)
Doctors of the World (Director)
Human Rights Watch, 1996-2005
Sakharov Archives
Princeton University Planned Giving Committee (Chairman)
Soros Foundations: Legal adviser to Open Society Institute and to
Soros worldwide network of Foundations
JEHT Foundation
Lincoln Center Theater (Director)
The Academy of American Poets (Director)
Advisory Committee on Global Initiatives, The New School
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
American Friends of the Israel Museum
The Picower Foundation
Parents' Action for Children
The Lymphoma Foundation
Harmonie Club, (President, 1989-92)
Project on Death in America (Advisory Board 1994-99)
Other Distinctions
Lifetime Achievement Award, The American Lawyer (2006)
Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Award (2005)
Brandeis University Distinguished Community Service Award
Distinguished Service Award, New School University
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights 2003 Extraordinary Leader Award
Member, American Law Institute
Fellow, Brandeis University
Fellow, American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel
Academician, International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
Education
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Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
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Princeton University, B.A., summa cum laude
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