• Selection of form of business and business formation (corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, partnership, joint venture)
• Principals' collaboration agreements (incorporators', shareholders' or other co-principals' agreements)
• Basic income tax planning
• Buy-sell/redemption agreements
• Employment agreements

• Will drafting
• Trust drafting
• Complex estate tax planning referrals to several colleagues with whom we have worked and who we respect
• Probate (NY & NJ)
• Estate administration

Steven A. Sklar obtained his early working experience as an associate in corporate and trusts and estates law at the forty-lawyer firms Reid & Riege in Hartford, Connecticut and Schenck, Price, Smith & King in Morristown, New Jersey. There, he handled estate administration matters, estate planning matters,corporate and estate tax matters and disputes, and drafted agreements involved in the establishment of corporations and other collaborative ventures. He also handled customs law matters for Rode & Qualey in New York City as a summer associate.

He opened his own practice in 1990 and since then has continued to assist clients on general business matters such as the drafting and negotiation of collaboration agreements in a variety of fields, including health care, film production, radio network ventures and intellectual property licensing. He also handles will and trust drafting.

Nila M. Pusin handles probate, estate administration and estate litigation matters for the firm. Before joining the firm, she gained experience in estate litigation matters during her seven years of work as an associate at the firm of Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin (formerly Gern, Dunetz, Davison & Weinstein) in Roseland, New Jersey.

• Experience dealing with a variety of governmental agencies, such as surrogate's offices, probate courts, Internal Revenue Service, New York and New Jersey taxation authorities, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Medicare/Medicaid authorities, state departments of labor, and the former U.S. Customs Service
  
  
• Personal fiduciary experience, successfully handling estate administration matters despite significant beneficiary acrimony.
  
  
• The firm works with a valuable network of competent attorney and accountant contacts it has developed. Their areas of expertise supplement the firm's own, and both the firm and, by extension, its clients can rely on them to provide reliable, competent assistance, under our guidance where necessary. We use such outside consultants judiciously. For example, it is our view that an attorney should not bill clients at an attorney's rates for accounting tasks more economically handled by an accountant.

e-mail to: sklar@stevensklar.com