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Robert E. Brown, a partner, has practiced tax and employee benefits law since 1971. A graduate of Yale Law School, and Oberlin College, he has broad experience in state and federal taxation. Since 1978, he has been a member of the executive committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association where he has chaired subcommittees on Software and Intellectual Property, Sales Property and Miscellaneous Taxes, Employee Benefits, Interstate Tax Matters, New York State Tax Matters and Continuing Education. He was a member of the New York State Bar Association Special Committee on Pension Simplification and has spoken at many seminars including the National Tax Association - Tax Institute of American Sales and Use Tax Seminar, the New York University 47th Annual Institute of Federal Taxation and the New York University 50th Annual Institute on Federal Taxation. He is a professional member of the ESOP Association. He is author of "A Checklist for the Planning and Drafting of Shareholder Buy-Sell Agreements" Proceedings of The New York University Fiftieth Institute on Federal Taxation Matthew Bender, 1992. He also is a co-author (along with Howard Konar) of: Chapter 3, "Residence", Chapter 4 "Taxation of Nonresidents: Allocation and Apportionment", New York State Tax Service Matthew Bender & Company, 1985; "Report on the Applicability of the Investment Tax Credit and the Accelerated Cost Recovery System to Computer Software", New York State Bar Association Tax Section, 1982 and was a Practice Consultant (taxation of foreclosures) for New York Real Property Tax Service Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1987. He also is a co-author (along with Tabitha M. Croscut and Paul S. Fusco) of "Basic Fiduciary Guidance for the ESOP Trustee in Corporate Finance Transactions," New York University Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Matthew Bender, 2006. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Naifeh and Smith) since 1993. | 