Honors and Awards: Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel."AV" rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

Bar/Professional Activity: Chair, Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association the New York (Former Chair, Estate Litigation and Legislation Committees); member of the American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Courts) and the Westchester County Bar Association., 2010

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: Lectures:  New York State Bar Association (5th, 6th and 7th Annual Sophisticated Trusts and Estates Law Institutes; Contested Accounting Proceedings - December 2009; The Anatomy of an Estate - October 2006; Program Co-Chair; Estate Litigation - December 2002; Sleepless in Boston: Administering the Problem Estate - October 2002, Program Co-Chair; Representing the Fiduciary: The Problems and the Remedies - September 2000; Settling Litigation in the Surrogate’s Court - January 1999, Program Co-Chair; Surrogate’s Court Proceedings - Spring 2000; Administration of Decedent's Estates and Related Surrogate's Court Proceedings - Spring 1995); the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Estate Planning That’s Not Code-Dependent - June 2007; Estate Litigation for Beginners - March, 1999), the Surrogate’s Association of the State of New York, the  Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Bankers Association (Advanced Trust Forum - Summer 2009).Articles:  Relief Against a Fiduciary: SCPA 2102 Proceedings, NYSBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter (Winter 2000, Vol. 33, No.4), Estate Planning in the Face of Divorce: An Ounce of Prevention ..., New York State Bar Journal (June 2005) and co-authored Estates with Multiple Fiduciaries Pose Ethical and Practical Issues for Attorneys and Clients Alike, New York State Bar Journal (November/December/2001); Early Detection of Possible Pitfalls in Fiduciary Obligations Can Prevent Later Problems, New York State Bar Journal (January 2002); Assuring the Case You Thought Was Settled, Stays Settled, New York Law Journal, February 21, 2007, p. 3, col. 1; and Trust Contests -- The Developing Law, New York Law Journal, April 18, 2007, p. 3, col. 1.

Video: Oral Argument - New York Court of Appeals - Matter of Singer:   http://www.courts.state.ny.us/ctapps/Singer.asx, 2009