Robert S. Reynolds is a partner in the Estate Planning and Administration Practice Group and the Federal and State Taxation Practice Group.

Background
Mr. Reynolds is originally from Kingston, New York, and received his Bachelor of Science in Finance degree from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, in 1993. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School in 1996 and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center while he was serving as an attorney advisor at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. He returned to the Capital Region in 1999 and now resides in Glenmont, New York.

Representative Accomplishments

• Drafts estate planning documents including wills, trusts, retirement plan and insurance beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, health care proxies, and living wills
  
  
• Represents individual and corporate fiduciaries and family members in Surrogate’s (probate) Court and supervises all aspects of estate and trust administration
  
  
• Represents taxpayers before the United States Tax Court, Internal Revenue Service and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
  
  
• Co-authors a chapter on Federal and New York Estate Taxation in the New York State Bar Association’s publication “Probate and Administration of New York Estates”
  
  
• Lectures on trust and estate and tax matters for the New York State Bar Association and other organizations
  
  
• Served as an adjunct faculty member at Albany Law School as the instructor of Federal Income Tax of Corporations and Shareholders from 2002 to 2004
  
  
• Served as attorney advisor to the Honorable Daniel J. Dinan, United States Tax Court from 1996 to 1999

Affiliations
Mr. Reynolds is admitted to practice in New York State and before the United States Tax Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. He is a member of the Albany County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association (Trusts and Estates Section, Taxation Committee). Mr. Reynolds is also the immediate past president of the Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York, Inc. and a Siena College Saints Alive! member.