Lawrence A. Friedman- Resume

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LAWRENCE A. FRIEDMAN
Attorney At Law
12 Cushing Dr., Bridgewater, NJ 08807; 908-704-1900
Admitted in NJ, NY & U.S. Tax Court; LL.M. Taxation (NYU)

Professional Activities
Chair New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) Elder Law Section- 1998-1999;
NJSBA Distinguished Legislative Service Award for drafting legislation authorizing courts to establish special needs trusts and addressing other trust issues.
Certified Elder Law Attorney by A.B.A. approved National Elder Law Foundation.
Served as director or other official of Somerset Arc/Association for Retarded Citizens;
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA)- NJ;
Planned Lifetime Assistance Network/NJ (PLAN/NJ);
Malaria Foundation;
Henderson Scholarship Fund; Somerset County Chamber of Commerce;
NJSBA Elder Law Section.
Principal Practice Areas-- Wills, trusts, estates, powers of attorney & health care directives; Taxation; Elder law & nursing home/long term care planning; Guardianships; Disabilities law; Special needs trusts to protect disability aid in gift and estate planning and personal injury and divorce settlements.
Frequent lecturer for New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), New Jersey State Bar Association & Foundation, NAELA, various elder & disabilities groups, and other public and private sponsors.

Publications Recent articles include—“Settling Claims While Protecting Disability Aid”, New Jersey Lawyer (August 9, 2004); “Preserving Disability Benefits When Settling Personal Injury, Divorce and Worker Compensation Claims”, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (August, 2002); “Not Just Nursing Homes: Medicaid Covers Other Long-Term Options”, New Jersey Lawyer (April 15, 2002); "Nursing Home, Assisted Living and Community Care Medicaid Benefits", NJSBA Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section Newsletter (March 2002); "Assisted Living/Alternate Family Care Waivers", NJSBA Elder Lw Section Newsletter (February, 2002); :“Special Needs Planning for Plaintiff’s Lawyers“, New Jersey Law Journal (November 12, 2001); Gifts by Incapacitated Persons: Tax Traps and Other Issues in Drawing POAs”, ElderLaw Report (September, 2001); “Avoiding Traps in Power of Attorney Forms”, New Jersey Lawyer (May 28, 2001); “Special Needs Trusts to Safeguard Disability Benefits in Personal Injury and Divorce Settlements and Estate Planning”, Elder’s Advisor (Spring, 2001); “Special Needs Trust Estate Planning to Preserve Disability Aid”, New Jersey Law Journal (November 20, 2000); "Qualifying for Medicaid: New Regulations Change Nursing Home Planning", New Jersey Lawyer (July 10, 2000); “Protecting Your Family & Finances When Long Term Care Is Needed”, The Speaker (February, 2000); “Estate Planning: Beyond Tax Concerns”, PPC Financial Advisory Services (January, 2000); “Estate Tax Planning”, PPC Financial Advisory Services (December, 1999); “Focus on Elder Law: Forge a Systematic Approach to Long- Term Care for Your Clients”, New Jersey Law Journal (August 16, 1999); “Long Term Care Planning”, PPC Financial Advisory Services Alert (August 1999); “New Jersey Falls in Line on SNT Liens”, ElderLaw Report (May, 1999); “Qualifying for Nursing Home Care Under Medicaid”, New Jersey Lawyer (April 19, 1999); “N.J. “Supreme Court Holds Community Spouse’s IRA is a Countable Resource”, ElderLaw Report (September, 1998); “Funding Nursing Home Care Without Going Broke”, Somerset Business (September, 1998) “Protecting a Disabled Person Whose Parent Becomes Terminally Ill”, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (April, 1998); “Medicaid Liens: Not All Need to be Repaid in Full Before Funding SNTs”, ElderLaw Report (February, 1998); “Safeguarding Disability Benefits Upon Divorce”, New Jersey Lawyer Lawrence A. Friedman, Esq. 12 Cushing Dr., Bridgewater, NJ 08807 (908) 704-1900 Newspaper (Aug. 25, 1997); “Protecting Recoveries for Elderly or Disabled Clients”, New Jersey Law Journal (June 9, 1997); “Estate Tax Planning”, Somerset Business (April 1997); “Tax Planning with Special Needs Disability Trusts”, ElderLaw Report (November, 1996); “Nursing Home Planning Gifts: Some Now are Outlawed, but Alternatives Remain”, New Jersey Lawyer Newspaper (Nov. 18, 1996); “New Jersey's Expansive Estate Recovery Law Invites Litigation”, ElderLaw Report (April, 1996); “New Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules Create Complications”, New Jersey Lawyer Newspaper (Jan. 22, 1996); “Lifetime and Estate Planning for Persons with Developmental Disabilities or Mental Illness”, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine (July, 1995); “The Art of Special Needs Trusts”, New Jersey Law Journal (June 19, 1995); “Estate Planning to Protect Persons with Serious Disabilities- A View from Across the Hudson”; Elder Law Attorney (Spring, 1995); and “Medicaid for Elder Care Requires Early Planning”, New Jersey Law Journal (April 10, 1995). Other articles have appeared in periodicals noted above, general circulation media, and in Journal of Taxation; Tax Times; Tax Management Estates, Gifts & Trusts Journal; Financial and Estate Planners Quarterly; and N.Y.U. Journal of Intl. Law & Politics.

Education New York University School of Law— LL.M. in Taxation-1982, J.D.-1976, Editor N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics. Awards in ATLA Environmental Law Essay Contest and American Society of International Law Essay Contest. Student Fellow of N.Y.U. Center for International Studies.
S.U.N.Y. Binghamton (Harpur College)— B.A.-1973, Phi Beta Kappa, University Assembly.