Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Ms. Slater-Jansen was educated Law Clerkship Pursuant to Section 520.50 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York for admission of Attorneys and Counselors-at-Law. She passed the New York State Bar Exam in a first sitting. 

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member of Employee Benefit and Asset Protection Committees of American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
• Estate Planning Council of Westchester, Inc.
• Westchester Bar Association
• Westchester Women's Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association: Trust and Estates Section (prior Chair of Committee on Insurance and Employee Benefits); Elder Law Section
• The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) – Fellow

Pro bono/Community Service:

• UJA Federation of New York: Westchester Business and Professional Executive Board
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: National Advisory Board

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Presentations and Articles Addendum Selective Presentations New York State Bar Association 2007 CLE program:  “Supplemental Needs Trusts as Beneficiary of Retirement Plans.” September 24, 2007 Westchester Women’s Bar Association 2007 CLE program:   “Naming Trusts as Beneficiaries of Retirement Benefits: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.”  June 5, 2007 Georgetown University Law Center 2005 Wealth Management Summit - “Retirement Planning: The Population is Aging and That Changes Everything.” October 18, 2005 United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York: “Hot Topics in Transfer Tax Planning” September 19, 2005 American Bar Association Women Rainmakers.  Top Women’s Initiatives:  A Unique Method to Retain Top Talent and Top Client Panel, August 5, 2005. The Bank of New York “Estate Planning Options for Taxable Estates Whether Majority of Assets are Retirement Benefits.” May 13, 2005. Morgan Stanley-Presentation:  Women and Wealth Seminar -- “How To Be A Survivor.”  March 8, 2005 Bank of New York: “Impact of HIPAA Privacy Rules on Health Care Proxies, Powers of Attorney and Revocable Trusts”.  January 30, 2004. Internal Revenue Service:  (New York City Estate Tax District Office) “Estate Planning Aspects of Retirement Plans and IRAs”, May 8, 2001.   Practicing Law Institute: “Basic Estate Planning”: “Estate Planning Institute”: “Hot Topics in Estate Planning” (lifetime transfers, zeroed out and short form GRATs, QPRTs, GRIT, GRATs and Split Purchases), September 10, 2001; September 23, 2002. “Income and Estate Tax Planning for IRA and Qualified Plan Distributions”, July 21, 1997. American Bar Association: 2002 Summer Meeting:  Plans For Closely Held Businesses.” 2001 Annual Meeting, (Chicago, Illinois) “New Legislation Affecting Retirement Planning.” 2000 Annual Meeting (New York, New York) “Estate and Pension Planning in the New Millennium.” 1999 Annual Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia): “Estate and Gift Tax Issues Involving Retirement Plans and Planning.” 1998 Annual Meeting (Toronto): “Estate and Pension Planning for High Net Worth Individuals After Tax Reform”: “Estate and Gift Tax Issues Involving Retirement Plans and Planning.” New York State Bar Association: “Practical Skills—Introduction to Estate Planning”, Fall, 2009 “Everything you Wanted to Know About Estate Planning for the Middle Class Client”, Spring 2009 “Dealing with your Client’s Retirement Assets,” Moderator and Chair, Fall 2007 “Special Needs Trust,” Fall 2007 “Fiduciary Income Tax Planning,” Spring, 1997. “Lifetime (Intervivos) Trusts, Estate and Gift Taxation”, Spring, 1998. “Income Taxation of Decedent’s Estates,” Spring, 2001. NYU Institute on Federal Taxation: “Estate and Gift Tax Issues Involving Retirement Plans and Planning”, New York, New York and San Francisco, California, Winter, 1995. Virginia Conference on Federal Taxation: “Lifetime, Estate and Tax Planning for IRA and Qualified Plan Distributions”, University of Virginia, June 7, 1996. NYU Summer Institute in Taxation, “Introduction to Trusts and Estates”:  “Overview, Estate Taxes and Pension Distribution Planning”, July 1996. Association of the Bar of the City of New York: “Retirement Plan Distributions:  Beneficiary Designations and Options”,  May 28, 1996. “Estate Administration for Paralegals” (Chaired), March 20, 1997. Selective Legal Publications “Elder Abuse by Marriage:  A Call to Legislative Action”, Domestic Law Review, July 1010 “A Golden Opportunity”, Trusts & Estates Magazine,  January 2006. “Final Regulations Set Rules For Distributions from IRAs and Retirement Plans’, Co-Author with Avery E. Neumark, New York State Bar Journal, February 2003. “Easing the Burden on IRA Estate Taxes”, Co-Author with Ronald Finkelstein, New York Law Journal, April 1, 2002. “New Rules Offer Greater Flexibility and Simpler Distribution Patterns for IRAs and Pension Plans”, Co-Author with Avery E. Neumark, New York State Bar Journal, March/April 2001. “I.R.S. Simplifies Minimum Distribution Rules for IRA’s”, Co-Author with Avery E. Neumark, The Practical Tax Lawyer, NYSBA Elder Law Attorney, Spring 2001. “I.R.S. Simplifies Minimum Distribution Rules”, Co-Author with Avery E. Neumark, NYSBA Elder Law Attorney, Spring 2001. “Creating and Administering Trusts involving Real Estate”, Practice Guide, Co-Author with Sanford J. Schlesinger,  Powell on Real Property, Matthew Bender & Co., New York, New York, 1997 edition. “Estate and Gift Tax Issues Involving Retirement Plans and Planning”, New University’s Fifty-Fourth Institute on Federal Taxation, Matthew Bender & Co., New York, New York, 1996. “Fiduciary Income Tax Planning” chapter, Co-Author,  Probate and Administration of New York Estates, NYSBA, 1995 and 1997 update.