Jonathan G. Blattmachr

Jonathan Blattmachr's practice involves estate and gift tax planning, tax exempt organizations and estate and trust administration. He is recognized as one of the most creative trusts and estates lawyers in the country and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America. He was listed in 1985, before he was 40 years old, as among the best 250 lawyers in the country and has been listed as one of the best 50 lawyers in New York. He has written and lectured extensively on estate and trust taxation and charitable giving. He currently serves as chair of the Milbank Trusts and Estates Department.

Mr. Blattmachr is a member of the Alaska, California and New York Bars. He has served as a lecturer-in-law of the Columbia University School of Law and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School in its Masters in Tax Program (LLM). He is a former Chairperson of the Trusts & Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Blattmachr is a Fellow and a former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and past Chair of its Estate and Gift Tax Committee. He is author or co-author of more than 250 articles and four books on estate planning topics. He was the Editor of The Chase Review, during its entire 18-year publication history by The Chase Manhattan Bank. He was awarded (together with his co-authors) the Probate & Property 2004 Excellence in Writing Award. He has been designated as a Distinguished Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planning Councils. Mr. Blattmachr also is a co-developer of Wealth Transfer Planning, a software system for lawyers that provides specific client advice and automated document assembly for wills, trusts, powers of attorney and other estate planning documents.

Among professional activities, which are too numerous to list, Mr. Blattmachr has served as an Advisor on The American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law, Trusts 3rd; and as a Fellow and a member of the board of The New York Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. He graduated from Columbia University School of Law, cum laude, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and received his A.B. degree from Bucknell University, majoring in mathematics.