Avigail Goldglancz

Avigail Goldglancz is a Trusts & Estates attorney with more than a decade of experience.

Avigail focuses her practice on estate and tax planning, including estate succession, gift and generation skipping transfers, charitable giving and international tax advice, and planning for cross-border investments, wealth transfer and asset protection, estate and trust administration, and estate and probate litigation.

Her practice also focuses on tax optimization strategies designed specifically for founders, investors and executives, including strategies to minimize capital gains tax, state taxes and estate taxes, and to protect her client’s assets.

Avigail has been recognized by Best Lawyers as One to Watch since 2021. She is editor-in-chief of the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association, and is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Texas.

Professional Highlights

Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (published by BL Rankings LLC) for Trusts and Estates (2021 – 2025)
Selected to Super Lawyers New York Metro Rising Stars for 2024
Editor-in-chief of the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association

New York City Bar, Member of Trusts, Estates & Surrogate’s Court Committee

Memberships
- Chairperson of the Newsletter & Publications Committee of the Trusts & Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association
- Board of Directors, Toys for Hospitalized Children Inc.
- Board Member, Israel Tech Mission Inc.
- Member, Estate Planning Council of New York City Inc.
- Member, American Bar Association

Awards & Rankings
- Volunteers of Legal Service (VOLS) Pro Bono Dean’s List Award, Senior Law Project (2022)
- Dean’s List
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in New York Practice, Real Estate Transactions and Post Mortem Estate Planning
- Recipient of the Beatrice Levine Scholarship

Education

LL.M., New York University, 2020

J.D., St. John's University School of Law, 2014
cum laude

B.A., Liberal Arts, Charter Oak State College, 2007
with honors

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