Michael A. Breslow

Michael Breslow focuses his practice on estate planning, trust and estate administration, and estate and gift taxation.

Michael was named a Rising Star Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters in trust and estate law 2019 – 2021. He was also named a Best Lawyer in Trusts and Estates in 2022.

Prior to joining Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, Michael was an associate in a small business, tax and estate planning firm. He also clerked for the Honorable Mala Sundar, J.T.C., in the Tax Court of New Jersey, in Newark, New Jersey.

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
• New Jersey Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association
  • Probate and Trust Law Section
• Philadelphia Estate Planning Council
• Montgomery Bar Association

• Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star (2019, 2020, 2021)
• Best Lawyer (2022)

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• 2022 Speaker, “Hide and Seek with the Corporate Transparency Act – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Webinar (with Glenn Fox, Kevin Shepherd and Raj Malviya).
• 2021 MCPEC Meeting, Speaker, “The 2021 Tax Proposals: A roundtable discussion of what to know and what to do before 12/31/21,” November 17, 2021.

• 2019 Michael A. Breslow and Patrick A. Russo, Co-Authors, “The New §199A Deduction for Qualified Business Income and its Application to Trusts and Estates,” PBA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2019, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Issue No. 84.
• 2018 Michael A. Breslow, Co-Author, and Bradley D. Terebelo, Co-Speaker, “Powers of Appointment: A Useful Estate Planning Tool,” with Robert M. Maxwell, Glenmede Trust Company, N.A., and Lisa A. Shearman, Semanoff, Ormsby, Greenberg & Torchia, LLC, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 2018  Michael A. Breslow, Speaker, “The Delaware Tax Trap,” Philadelphia Bar Probate Section Tax Committee, September 25, 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Podcast available at Here
• 2017 Michael A. Breslow, Author, “FATF United States Mutual Evaluation Report December 2016,” The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, May 2017.
• 2017 Michael A. Breslow, Co-Speaker, “Irrevocable Trusts: Drafting with the Right Ingredients,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, with David Brown, Esquire, Duane Morris LLP, and Edward L. Perkins, Esquire, Gibson & Perkins, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 2017 Michael A. Breslow, Co-Speaker, “Irrevocable Trusts: Drafting with the Right Ingredients,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, with Julieanne Steinbacher, Esquire, Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak, and Andy Sykes, Esquire, Sykes Elder Law, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
• 2016 Michael A. Breslow, Author, “Deliberately Violating the Delaware Tax Trap to Achieve a Step-Up in Income Tax Basis,” Pennsylvania Bar Association, Summer/Fall 2016 Real Property, Trust and Probate Section Newsletter, Issue 79.
• 2016 Michael A. Breslow, Author, “Deliberately Violating the Delaware Tax Trap to Achieve a Step-Up in Income Tax Basis,” Philadelphia Estate Planning Council Newsletter, Vol. XXV, No. 3 (Spring 2016).