{"id":8780,"date":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/two-norris-mclaughlin-marcus-attorneys-named-2019-best-lawyers-lawyers-of-the-year-in-woodbridge-area\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T09:47:32","slug":"two-norris-mclaughlin-marcus-attorneys-named-2019-best-lawyers-lawyers-of-the-year-in-woodbridge-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/news\/two-norris-mclaughlin-marcus-attorneys-named-2019-best-lawyers-lawyers-of-the-year-in-woodbridge-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Norris McLaughlin Attorney Named 2019 Best Lawyers\u00ae &#8220;Lawyers of the Year&#8221; in Woodbridge Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/Attorney\/kenneth-d-meskin\/\">Kenneth D. Meskin<\/a> of the law firm of <a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norris McLaughlin, P.A.<\/a>, was recently selected by <em>Best Lawyers<\/em> as 2019 \u201cLawyers of the Year\u201d in the Woodbridge, New Jersey, Metro Area for <a href=\"\/services\/estate-planning-and-administration-wealth-preservation\/\">Trusts and Estates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Best Lawyers<\/em> designates a select group of individuals as \u201cLawyers of the Year\u201d in high-profile specialties in large legal communities.\u00a0 Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each Metropolitan Area is honored as the \u201cLawyer of the Year.\u201d <em>Best Lawyers<\/em> compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The lawyers being honored as \u201cLawyers of the Year\u201d have received particularly high ratings in the surveys by earning high levels of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Meskin has over forty years of experience in sophisticated trust and estate planning, the administration of trusts and estates, probate litigation, and closely-held business planning. He uses sophisticated and creative tax and estate planning techniques to ensure that assets pass to the intended beneficiaries at as little cost as possible to the client. In order to minimize state and federal tax burdens and transfer wealth, Meskin has structured gift-giving programs, insurance planning, established charitable trusts and foundations, devised installment sale transactions, grantor trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, zeroed-out GRATs, and private annuity transactions, planned for the succession of family businesses to younger generations, and has drafted wills, revocable and irrevocable trust agreements, powers of attorney, and living wills.<\/p>\n<p>Meskin has worked on a wide variety of matters, including estate and trust litigation, post-mortem tax planning, the preparation of estate, gift, generation skipping, income and inheritance tax returns, federal estate tax audits, state inheritance proceedings, the representation of clients before the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Tax Court, and guardianship issues and proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Meskin earned his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his B.A., <em>cum laude<\/em>, from the University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 He is a frequent lecturer on tax and estate planning topics and has been listed in the Trusts and Estates section of <em>Best Lawyers<\/em> since 2006.<\/p>\n<p><em>Best Lawyers<\/em>\u00a0has published their list for over three decades, earning the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals. Its first international list was published in 2006 and since then has grown to provide lists in over 75 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth D. Meskin of the law firm of Norris McLaughlin, P.A., was recently selected by Best Lawyers as 2019 \u201cLawyers of the Year\u201d in the Woodbridge, New Jersey, Metro Area for Trusts and Estates. 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