Michelle Lewis Salzman
111 Great Neck Road
Sixth Floor
Great Neck, NY 11021
Phone 516-393-2504
Fax 516-466-5964
msalzman@garfunkelwild.com |
Practice
Groups
Discharge
Planning, Patient Rights and Elder Law
Personal Services and Estate Planning
Tax
Year Joined
2008
Education
New York University
(L.L.M. Taxation, 1996)
New York University School of Law
(J.D., 1994)
Amherst College
(summa cum laude, 1989)
Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admission
New York State Bar
Other Affiliations
American Health Lawyers Association |
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Biography
Michelle Lewis Salzman is a member of the firm's
Personal Services and Estate Planning, Tax Practice and
Discharge Planning, Patient Rights and Elder Law groups.
Ms. Salzman's work includes estate planning,
administration, litigation, charitable giving,
tax-exempt organization as well as general matters of
taxation. She also works with families of Special
Needs individuals, establishing Supplemental Needs
Trusts and advising families on Medicaid matters and
other governmental benefits. She also has
established and represented organizations devoted to
working with special needs children.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Salzman was most recently
a Managing Director in the healthcare group at Bear
Stearns. Before that, she worked at Merrill Lynch, JP
Morgan and Morgan Stanley, providing institutional
investment clients with analyses of companies in the
global healthcare industry, including hospital,
laboratory, diagnostic, managed care, distribution,
pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotechnology
firms.
After law school, Ms. Salzman worked at Simpson Thacher
& Bartlett in the Taxation and Trusts & Estates
practices, with a specialty in not-for-profit clients
and 501(c)(3) organizations. She was a contributor to
"New York Not for Profit Law and Practice with Tax
Analysis", a leading treatise focusing on treatment of
tax-exempt organizations in New York. Before law school,
she worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Ms. Salzman is a graduate of Amherst College (summa cum
laude, 1989), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
and received her J.D. from the New York University
School of Law in 1994, where she served on the Executive
Board of the Annual Survey of American Law. She received
her L.L.M. in taxation from NYU in 1996. She has served
on the Board of Directors of Discover the Smile, a
charity benefiting North Shore Long Island Jewish
Hospital, and is on the junior committee of the Sass
Foundation for Medical Research. |
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