Benker, Gregory

Bob Benjamin is a partner in the Private Client Services Department and Chair of the firm's Executive Committee. He counsels foreign and domestic clients in all matters relating to estate planning, probate and the taxation and administration of trusts and estates. In addition, Bob represents charitable organizations, banks and individuals in contested probate and trust matters in federal and state court. He also counsels tax-exempt organizations and members of charitable boards. He often works with clients who have complex estate planning needs, such as family business owners and foreign clients with offshore companies and trusts.

Prior to its merger with Wiggin and Dana, Bob was a partner of the New York City firm of Howe & Addington.

He is an honors graduate of Vassar College (A.B.) and the Fordham University School of Law (J.D.), where he was an Editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal.

Bob served as Chairman of the Manhattan Advisory Board of The Salvation Army from 2000 to 2004. He is a current member of the Board of San Miguel Academy, an inner-city school for boys in Newburgh, New York. In addition, Bob has served multiple times on the Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogate's Courts of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he has drafted numerous reports on proposed legislation affecting New York Surrogate's Court practice.

Since 2006, Bob has been listed in New York Super Lawyers magazine (for more information about the standards for inclusion in New York Super Lawyers, please click here).