New Jersey Wills and Estates Practice

For over 30 years, Amie has concentrated her practice in estate and succession planning, as well as complex probate and estate administration. Amie advises high net worth (often multigenerational) clients regarding sophisticated estate planning with an emphasis on estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer and income tax planning.

Amie is a sought-after speaker on a variety of estate planning topics, and she has spoken to attorneys on ethical issues confronting Trusts and Estate Practitioners at New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) as well as the National Business Institute, as well as to attorneys and accountants at the UJA Federation Endowment Foundation on the subject of charitable trusts. She has also spoken on Surrogate’s Court practice before the New York State Trial Lawyers’ Association.

Amie is peer review rated as a pre-eminent lawyer (“AV” rated) by Martindale-Hubbell. She is a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Real Property Trusts and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Amie began her professional career in Manhattan at a boutique intellectual property law firm handling that firm’s estate planning and contested probate matters, assisting well known visual artists and their families in the transfer of their often unique property rights and legacies from generation to generation.

In 1986 Amie returned to her home state of New Jersey to join the Firm now known as Gartenberg Howard, LLP as one of its founding partners.

Amie grew up in Freehold, New Jersey (Bruce Springsteen’s hometown), and resides in Manhattan. She received her law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, and her B.A. in French from the Ohio State University. She is admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey and New York, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States.

Amie serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Home Foundation of Northern New Jersey, and is a participant in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program.

Amie is passionate about helping families protect the people they love.