Admitted
1960, New York; 1963, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, U.S. Tax Court; 1965, U.S. Supreme Court; 1978, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Law School
Yale University, LL.B., cum laude, 1960
Law School Graduation Year
1960
College
Yale University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1956
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Employee Benefits, 1987-1992; Chairman, Sub-Committee on Pension Legislation, 1975-1976; Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Foundation Provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1969; Committee on Taxation, 1975-1976); New York State (Co-Chairman, Committee on Employee Benefits, Section of Taxation, 1976-1979) and American (Member, Section of Taxation, Committee on Employee Benefits) Bar Associations
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Note and Comment Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1959-1960. Recipient, Jewell Prize and Cardozo Prize, Yale University. Contributor: Employee Stock Ownership Plans, PLI, 1979. Author, Deferred Compensation: Design Issues and the Constructive Receipt Doctrine, Executive Compensation, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1996, 1997. Chairman, Seminar, Complying with the New Nondiscrimination and Minimum Coverage Regulations, PLI, 1991. Lecturer: Recent Pension Developments, WEB, October, 2000; Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, Actuarial Society of Greater New York, January, 1997; Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans, 1989 Employee Benefit Compliance Conference, Prentice Hall, Law and Business; Management Fiduciaries-Representing the ESOP Plan Committee, ESOP's in Financial Transactions, New York Law Journal, 1987; New Coverage, Nondiscrimination and Vesting Rules, Pension Practice under the New Tax Law, New York State Bar Association, 1986; Section 401(k) Plans, PLI Seminar on Flexible Compensation Plans, 1986. Author: The Impact of Pension Reform on New Plans: Funding, Vesting and Termination Insurance, 33 New York University Institute on Federal Taxation 477, 1975; Mergers and Acquisitions: Multiemployer Plan Issues, PLI Seminar, 1983; Creating ESOP's in Leveraged Buyouts, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance Law Reporter, 1989. Law Clerk to Judge Charles E. Clark, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1960-1961. Member, Pension Liaison Group of District Director, Northeast Region, Internal Revenue Service. Director, WEB, Inc., New York Chapter, 1990—, President, 1993-1994. Member: Advisory Committee, New York University Institute on Employee Plans and Executive Compensation, 1976-1979; Steering Committee, American Pension Conference, 1981-1983; Editorial Board, Bank and Corporate Governance Law Reporter, 1989—. Charter Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.