Robert S. Reynolds is the Chair of the Estate Planning and Administration Practice Group and a partner in the Federal and State Taxation Practice Group.
Background/Education
Mr. Reynolds is originally from Kingston, New York, and received his Bachelor of Science in Finance degree from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, in 1993. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School in 1996 and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center while he was serving as an attorney advisor at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C.
Representative Accomplishments
• Drafts estate planning documents including wills, trusts, retirement plan and insurance beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, health care proxies, and living wills with a focus on income, gift, estate and generation¬ skipping transfer taxes
• Represents individual and corporate fiduciaries and family members in Surrogate’s (probate) Court and supervises all aspects of estate and trust administration
• Represents taxpayers before the United States Tax Court, Internal Revenue Service and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
• Co¬authors chapters on Federal and New York State Estate Taxation in the New York State Bar Association’s publication “Probate and Administration of New York Estates”
• Lectures on trusts and estates and tax matters for the New York State Bar Association and other organizations
• Served as an adjunct faculty member at Albany Law School as the instructor of Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders from 2002 to 2004
• Served as attorney advisor to the Honorable Daniel J. Dinan, United States Tax Court from 1996 to 1999
