About Our Firm
Dedicated to Estate Planning Excellence
The Schreiner Law Group, P.C. is a law firm dedicated exclusively to Estate and Business Succession Planning, along with Estate and Trust Settlement and Administration in the New York metropolitan area.
Founded by Gary B. Schreiner, J.D., A.E.P., our firm brings decades of experience in trust banking and private estate planning practice to every client relationship. Gary’s unique background combines institutional trust experience at Chase Manhattan Bank, U.S. Trust Company, and The Bank of New York with his private practice expertise.
Our team approach ensures that every client receives personalized attention and the highest level of professional service. We pride ourselves on maintaining excellent service levels efficiently and affordably.
Before entering private practice in 1988, Gary served as a Trust Officer with Chase Manhattan Bank’s Trust Department for three years, U. S. Trust Company of New York’s Personal Asset Management Division for five years, and The Bank of New York’s Personal Trust Division for three years. Gary’s responsibilities at Chase were in Estate Administration; at US Trust he administered hundreds of personal Trusts for which the Trust Company acted as sole, or co-trustee; at the Bank of New York Gary assumed new business development responsibility, providing Estate Planning for high net worth branch banking customers.
- Our Mission
Our success is founded upon our single minded commitments to:
- Assisting families and business owners with the efficient management and disposition of their wealth to their successors and heirs that focuses on meeting your personal and business objectives before addressing the tax ramifications;
- Assisting our clients to better frame and communicate their objectives, and then translating those into legal and non legal structures designed to dramatically increase the probability of reaching those goals for their loved ones and their businesses;
- Delivering state of the art competence and techniques;
- Communicating our recommendations and analyses in a way that can be clearly understood and embraced by our clients;
- Identifying and recommending only the essential components necessary to meet your objectives, and avoid the "over-lawyering" that usually accompanies "best of breed" technical competence;
- Understanding and responding to the demands of the client;
- Avoiding and referring out legal business that is not directly related to our primary practice areas—we "stick to our knitting";
- Committing to the judicious, comprehensive use and persistent adoption of technology to deliver better service and communicate more effectively with our clients.
- Our Values
Professional Excellence means the unrelenting commitment to the highest ethical standards in our work for, and our relationships with, our clients. These include:
- Competence;
- Protecting client confidentiality;
- Recognizing, avoiding, or disclosing real and potential conflicts, as we frequently represent more than one member of a family or of a business who has different interests and objectives;
- Reasonable fees.
We are determined to maintain the highest quality in the legal services we provide, and to find the best people available to deliver them.
We believe our clients and our experience are our greatest teachers (besides our own loved ones), and our greatest assets.
We want to be fulfilled, intellectually and emotionally, by our work. As much as humanly possible, our work should be enjoyable.
Free Initial Consultation
Contact us today to schedule your complimentary estate planning review.