Brian T. Keane, Esq.
Education: B.S. Degree, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 1979
J.D. Degree, Seton Hall School of Law, Newark, NJ 1983
General: Admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1983, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1983, The Florida Bar in 1990; the New York Bar in 2020 Brian is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.
Specialties: Sophisticated estate planning for most circumstances (including advanced tax planning), basic to advanced estate administration in multiple jurisdictions. Areas of specialization include: planning for special needs and elder law; small business creation and formation, buy-sell arrangements; mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions.
Experience: Judicial Clerkship for the Honorable Sherwin D. Lester, J.S.C. Chancery Division, 1983-1984. Winne, Banta, Rizzi, Hetherington and Basralian – Associate Attorney, 1984-1988. Contant, Scherby and Atkins – Associate, 1988 – 1991, and Partner 1991-2001 (firm changed its name to Contant, Atkins, Rogers, Fede, Keane & Hille, LLC in 2000), Member in the law firm of Hartman & Winnicki, P.C. 2000-2019.
Associations: New Jersey Bar Association, New York Bar Association, The Florida Bar, Estate Planning Council of Bergen County.
Publications: “Medicaid Eligibility and Estate Recovery” The Bergen Barrister, May-June 1996. “Planning With Retirement Funds” The Bergen Barrister, Autumn 1998. “New Medicaid Regulations Effective June 18, 2001" Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association, Vol. 21 No.3 March 2002.
Lectures: Estate Planning Around Alzheimer Disease; Estate Planning for Seniors Seminar Series - Mahwah, Midland Park, Rutherford, Hackensack; Planning for Children (together with Richard J. Contant, esq.) as part of the Sophisticated Estate Planning Seminar – NJ ICLE.
