About the Author
Russell J. Fishkind, Esq., is a partner in the Personal Wealth, Estates and Trusts Practice Group at the Mid-Atlantic law firm of Saul Ewing, LLP. His practice focuses on high-net-worth estate planning, business succession planning, estate administration, and probate litigation. He has been practicing law in New York and New Jersey for over 20 years.
In addition to practicing law, Mr. Fishkind is an associate adjunct professor at New York University’s Department of Finance, Taxation and Law, where he has been teaching Estate and Business Succession Planning in the evenings for more than 15 years. His classes are interactive and chock full of celebrity probate litigation cases to help illustrate the need for effective estate and business succession planning, or strategies to implement when probate litigation is necessary.
Mr. Fishkind authored Legacy of a Lifetime, a guide to planning your estate, and co-authored the first and second editions of J.K. Lasser’s Estate & Business Succession Planning—A Legal Guide to Wealth Transfer. He has appeared numerous times on television and radio and is a frequent lecturer. He addressed the Michigan State Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and New Jersey State Bar Association at their annual meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey and the midyear meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. He has written articles for newspapers and magazines and was a contributing author for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education ...
