Areas of Practice
Joseph Goldman is head of the Trust & Estate practice at the firm.  He concentrates his practice on sophisticated trust and estate planning and administration, business succession planning and business transactional matters.  In addition to wills, Mr. Goldman’s estate planning practice includes drafting various trusts such as insurance trusts, GRATs, QPRTs and charitable trusts, to meet his clients’ needs.  Mr. Goldman advises owners of closely-held businesses on business and succession planning, taxation and real estate matters.  His practice also includes formation, dissolution, purchase and sale of businesses, as well as drafting shareholder agreements, LLC operating agreements, partnership agreements and limited partnership agreements.

Professional/Civic Activities
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, New Jersey Bar Association
• Member, Bergen County Bar Association
• Member, Greater New Jersey Estate Planning Council

Publications
• Co-Editor, Harcourt Brace Tristate Tax Letter Plus
• Contributing Editor, CCH Financial and Estate Planning Reporter
• Contributing Editor, CCH Business Strategies

Teaching/Seminars
• Adjunct Instructor, New York University Continuing School of Education -
Estate Planning For Wealth Management
• Instructor, New York City College of Technology – Estate Planning for
Paralegals
• Seminars on estate planning for Citibank, HSBC, New York Life Insurance
Company, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital
• Lecturer, New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) –
Sophisticated Estate Planning

Bar/Court Admissions
• New York, 1984
• New Jersey, 1991

Education
• J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1976
• B.A., Queens College (CUNY), 1972 (magna cum laude)