Firm earns top tier Trusts and Estates ranking from U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers

(Mineola, N.Y.) Meltzer Lippe, Long Island’s business law firm, has been ranked in the top tier in Trusts & Estates Law for the metropolitan area by the  U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers in its 2010 Best Law Firms rankings. Not only is Meltzer Lippe the only firm in the first tier in Trusts &Estates on Long Island, it is the only firm ranked in any tier in Trusts & Estates on Long Island. The rankings are posted online at www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms; the national first-tier rankings will be featured in the October print issue of U.S. News & World Report.

“We are extremely gratified to earn this recognition from our clients and professional peers,” said Lew Meltzer, managing partner of Meltzer Lippe.  “This top ranking confirms our conviction that Meltzer Lippe attorneys have the expertise and the brainpower equal to those of Manhattan firms.”

In addition to their client work, Meltzer Lippe’s Trusts & Estates attorneys are often sought as expert sources by journalists, as speakers at national conferences and seminars, as professors at area law schools, and as continuing legal education instructors.  Meltzer Lippe attorneys have been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily and other prestigious publications and media outlets.  Their articles have been published in a variety of scholarly and legal publications including Tax Notes, Trusts & Estates and the New York Law Journal.  The Trusts & Estates group handles all aspects of asset preservation techniques including wills and trusts; family limited partnerships; dynasty trusts; business succession planning; international estate planning; testamentary trusts and intervivos trusts; installment sales; state domicile and residence issues; charitable organizations and their for-profit affiliates; estate gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes; elder law; personal tax planning; life insurance and charitable trusts; estate tax motivated partnership and asset planning; restructuring; post mortem estate planning and probate of estates.

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers and extensive national surveys, in which major clients and leading lawyers, including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies were asked to rate the law firms they consider best in their practice area.

About Meltzer Lippe
Meltzer Lippe, known as Long Island’s Business Law Firm, is one of the largest law firms on Long Island.  The firm’s practice encompasses all aspects of corporate and business law, tax law, employment and labor law, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures, litigation, real estate, tax-exempt organizations, wills & trusts, estate planning  & administration, bankruptcy, construction law, employee benefits and executive compensation and government relations and regulatory affairs.  For more information on the firm, visit www.meltzerlippe.com.