Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2014 
Richard has forty years' experience advising clients in tax matters, estate planning and administration, and business law. His clients include closely held corporations, partnerships, funds, tax-exempt organizations and high net worth individuals. Prior to entering the practice of law, Richard practiced as a Certified Public Accountant. His extensive knowledge of tax law enables him to counsel clients with respect to complex estate planning issues as well as the formation, operation, and sale of their businesses.
Richard frequently speaks to groups of attorneys, CPAs, clients, and the public. He has lectured on a wide variety of topics including basic and advanced estate planning, choice of entity, partnership tax, S corporation taxation, like kind exchanges, tax aspects of divorce, tax aspects of insolvency and bankruptcy, IRA distributions, generation skipping tax, Connecticut estate tax, Connecticut conveyance taxes, IRS collections and offers in compromise, the net investment income tax, the Corporate Transparency Act, and other subjects.
Richard has been named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers in America® for Business Organizations in the Stamford area (2022, 2024 and 2027) and Tax Law in the Stamford area (2018 and 2020). He is recognized in the 2014-2027 editions of Best Lawyers® in the area of Tax Law, from 2018-2027 in the area of Business Organizations, and from 2020-2027 in the area of Trusts and Estates. Richard also holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rating, the highest possible Peer Review Rating™ from Martindale-Hubbell.
He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1977, his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1983, and his LL.M. (in Taxation) from New York University School of Law in 1984.
