LOUIS W. PIERRO is the founder and principal of Pierro Law Group, LLC, and concentrates his practice in the areas of Estate Planning, Estate and Trust Administration, Business Succession Planning and Elder Law.  Mr. Pierro has Chaired the Elder Law Section; the Estate Planning Committee and the Committee on Taxation of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.  Chair of the Long-Term Care Reform Committee of the Elder Law Section; and services on the Executive Committee of both sections. 

Mr. Pierro served as an adjunct professor at Siena College, where he lectured on Estate Planning from 1987-1995.  He has lectured extensively on Estate Planning and Elder Law, including national programs such as the New York University Tax Institute and Wealth Counsel National Study Group, numerous state bar programs, and regional programs for the American Institute of CPA’s, the Investment Management Association, New York City Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors, and others.

Mr. Pierro has served as a Director of the Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York, Inc.; Senior Services of Albany, Inc.; Alzheimer’s Association of Northeast New York; McAuley Residence and a member of the Albany County Bar Association (Chair, Elder Law Committee 1993-1998), the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the American Bar Association, Probate and Trust Section.

A graduate of Lehigh University and Albany Law School, Mr. Pierro was admitted to the bar in January 1984, and is licensed to practice in all New York State Courts, the US Supreme Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

PHILIP A. DI GIORGIO practices in the areas of Estate Planning, Estate and Trust Administration and Estate and Gift Taxation. Mr. Di Giorgio is a graduate of the Albany Law School of Union University, and received his Bachelor of Arts Decree from State University of New York at Albany . He was admitted to the New York State Bar in January, 1991, and is also admitted to the Federal District Court for the Northern District of New York. Mr. Di Giorgio joined Pierro & Associates, LLC after having served as an Internal Revenue Service Estate Tax Attorney from 1991 – 1999. Mr. Di Giorgio authored Your Estate Tax Return and the Internal Revenue Service and served as an instructor for the IRS. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section, the Estate Planning Council of Eastern N.Y. Mr. Di Giorgio is also the author of an article entitled Surviving an Estate Tax Audit which was published in the New York State Bar Association's Trusts and Estates Section Newsletter, Winter 2000, and Medicaid Recoveries from Estates published Winter 2004. Mr. Di Giorgio helped to establish the Albany County Bar Trusts, Estates and Elder Law Committee of which he served as Co-Chair from January, 2002 to December, 2003. Mr. Di Giorgio's article Understanding Tax Procedures was published in April, 2002 as an instructional text published by the National Business Institute entitled "A Practical Guide to Estate Administration in New York ." Mr. Di Giorgio was named a partner at Pierro & Associates as of April, 2005. Mr. Di Giorgio was appointed as vice chair of the Estate Planning Committee for the New York State Bar Association's Trust and Estates Section in January of 2006.

Louis W. Pierro
Philip A. Di Giorgio
Jane-Marie Schaeffer
Arthur F. Dicker
Monika L. Bellows
Kimberly Strauchon Verner


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