Practice Areas:     Estate Planning and Administration, International Adoption

Admitted:     1995, New York

Education:    Juris Doctor, cum laude, St. John's University School of Law 1994; Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, Fordham University 1991

Memberships:     New York State Bar Association: Trusts and Estates Section, Committee on Legislation; Volunteer Lawyers Initiative, Archdioceses of Rockville Center; New York State Commission on Quality of Care, Surrogate Decision Making Committee, Panel Member/Chairperson; Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Member: 1997-1999, Secretary, Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Court Committee : 1997-1998.

Biography:     While in law school, Ms. Slezak was a member of the St. John's Law Review and a recipient of an American Jurisprudence Award for Excellent in Contracts.   In 1994, she received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, and joined the New York office of White & Case as an associate in the Private Clients Group, concentrating in trusts and estates.  In 1997, Ms. Slezak joined the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and continued her trusts and estates practice as an associate in the Personal Representation Department.  She left Paul, Weiss for an extended maternity leave in 1999, and thereafter continued concentrating in trusts and estates in private practice.  Effective July 1, 2005, she became associated with the law firm of Albanese & Albanese, LLP.  Ms. Slezak is the mother of two children through international adoption.

Publications:

“Where There’s A Will, There’s a Woman’s Way” Long Island Woman (August 2001)

“HIV/AIDS in the Child Care Setting” Child Care Law Manual (Lawyers Alliance for New York) 

Penal Law §125.15 ,  67 St. John’s L. Rev. 179 (1994)

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