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Jonathan G. Blattmachr, Esq., is a member of the Alaska, California, and New York bars, and a partner in the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has served as a lecturer-in-law of the Columbia University School of Law and as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at Pace Law School, where he teaches Estate & Gift Taxation. Mr. Blattmachr is a former Chair of the Trusts & Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and he has served on many other committees of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Blattmachr is a Fellow and a former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and past Chair of its Estate and Gift Tax Committee.

He is author or co-author of over 300 articles and five books on estate and tax planning topics including a new book on Circular 230 published by the Practising Law Institute. He has been designated as a Distinguished Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. Mr. Blattmachr is a co-developer of Wealth Transfer Planning, a software system published for lawyers, which provides specific client advice and automated document-assembly for wills, trusts, powers of attorneys, and other estate planning documents. Mr. Blattmachr is one of the most well-known tax lawyers in the United States.

February 28, 2006	Louis A. Craco Chairman, New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law "'Carpe Diem': An Opportunity to Reclaim Lawyers' Independence"
September 21, 2004	Robert J. Grey Jr. American Bar Association President "Legal Ethics in the 21st Century"
November 12, 2003	James B. Comey United States Attorney Southern District of New York "Fighting Terrorism and Protecting Civil Liberties"
January 22, 2003	Stanley L. Cohen, ‘83 Attorney of Law "Deconstructing Ethical Considerations 2-26, 2-27, 2-28, and 2-29 A textual and historical analysis"
October 11, 2001	Professor William H. Simon Saunders Professor of Law Stanford University Visiting Professor, Columbia University "The Role of the Public Official's Lawyer: A Case Study from the Clinton Era"
October 11, 2000	Carrie Menkel-Meadow Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center "Private Lives and Professional Responsibilities? The Relationship of Personal Morality to Lawyering and Professional Ethics"
November 9, 1999	The Honorable Roger J. Miner United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit "Professional Responsibility in Appellate Practice: A View from the Bench"
April 16, 1998	Ronald K. Noble Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Former Under Secretary for Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Treasury "Investigating Leaks: A Necessary Undertaking for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr"
April 3, 1997	Bill Wagner, Esq. Past President, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Senior Partner, Wagner, Vaughan & McLaughlin, P.A. "Legal Ethics in a Confrontational Society"
March 28, 1996	Monroe H. Freedman Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics Hofstra University School of Law "Ethical Obligations of Prosecutors in Death Penalty Cases"
April 27, 1995	Linda Fairstein, Esq. Chief, Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit New York County District Attorney’s Office "Sex Crimes and the Media"
April 5, 1994	The Honorable E. Leo Milonas Chief Administrative Judge, State of New York "Matrimonial Lawyers and Ethical Problems"
Nov. 19, 1992	The Honorable Robert Johnson Bronx District Attorney
April 8, 1992	Professor Stephen Gillers New York University School of Law "The Owl and the Fox: The Transformation of Legal Work in a Commodity Culture"
May 3, 1990	The Honorable Guy J. Mangano Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, 2d Dept. Louis Gerstman, Esq. Chief Law Clerk, Appellate Division, 2d Dept. Gary L. Casella, Esq. Chief Counsel Grievance Committee, Ninth Judicial District Jerome Karp, Esq. Attorney to attorneys in disciplinary hearings