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Sandra Brown Sherman

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:

SANDRA BROWN SHERMAN is a partner with Morristown-based law firm Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP. Her practice includes significant work in estate planning and estate administration, federal and state income, estate, corporate and sales tax disputes, the formation and tax-exempt qualification of nonprofit entities, and real estate taxation. She also has a considerable background in tax and business planning for closely held corporations and their shareholders.

Ms. Sherman is a regular contributor to national tax and estate planning journals, and is a frequent lecturer on tax and business planning topics.

Ms. Sherman is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association’s and the American Bar Association’s sections on Taxation and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, and is a member of the American Bar Association’s subcommittee on the special problems of business owners. She is also a Trustee and Secretary of the Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In 2006, Ms. Sherman was named Trustee at Large for the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association. She has been named among the top tax and trusts & estates lawyers in New Jersey by Best Lawyers in America®, a peer review of US Lawyers. Law & Politics magazine named her one of New Jersey's "Super Lawyers."

Telephone: (973) 451-8510
Email: ssherman@riker.com
Website: www.riker.com

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PRACTICE AREAS:
Estate Planning and Administration
Taxation
Closely Held Business

BAR ADMISSION:
New Jersey, 1984
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1984
Texas, 1982
Illinois, 1979
United States Tax Court, 1988
New York, 1997

EDUCATION:
J.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, magna cum laude, 1979; LL.M., 1981
B.M.E., Indiana University at Bloomington, with distinction, 1975