Attorney Michael Weitzner
Practice Areas

Michael Weitzner

Of Counsel

Michael Weitzner is a tax lawyer in the Trusts & Estates practice group. Michael’s tax practice includes all phases of taxation, tax litigation, estate planning and asset protection planning. Areas of expertise include corporate, individual, partnership, and real estate taxation. He has extensive experience structuring transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of business interests. In addition, he has substantial experience in the areas of estate tax and international taxation.

Michael began his legal career as a Trial Attorney in the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he tried many tax related cases throughout the United States. While at the Department of Justice he participated in cases that are still leading authority on a variety of issues, such as Boyle v. United States, dealing with the imposition of tax penalties, and United States v. Lawless, dealing with the privileges accorded tax return information.

Immediately prior to joining Kurzman Eisenberg, he was a tax partner in the Wall Street law firm of Brauner Baron Rosenzweig & Klein, LLP. Among other things, while on Wall Street, Michael represented commodities traders and hedge fund managers. His practice involved international transactions and sophisticated financial transactions such as straddles, hedges and cross-border transfers.

Michael previously taught individual income tax law at the Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C. The University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law is the successor to Antioch School of Law.

Education

  • New York University School of Law (LLM in Taxation)
  • Whitman School of Management, at Syracuse University (J.D.)
  • Whitman School of Management, at Syracuse University (M.S., Accounting)
  • SUNY Albany (B.A.)

Admissions

  • New York
  • District of Columbia
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • United States Tax Court
  • U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and D.C. Circuits
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims
  • U.S. District Courts of the Southern and Eastern District of New York

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • New York Bar Association
  • Westchester Bar Association
  • Putnam Bar Association