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Alison Schrag is a partner at Sherman Atlas Sylvester & Stamelman LLP, where she focuses her practice on trusts and estates planning and administration. She works closely with families, individuals, and entrepreneurs to help them with their trust and estate planning needs, including contested account proceedings and other related proceedings. The firm operates in New York and New Jersey, offering services that encompass estate planning, corporate law, internal investigations, banking and financial services, litigation, and tax planning.

With nearly twenty years of experience, she is admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey. She began her legal career as a litigation associate, representing financial institutions and corporate trustees in complex fiduciary and commercial proceedings. Before joining her current firm, she was a partner at a New York-based trust and estate practice, where she gained significant experience advising families, entrepreneurs, and fiduciaries. In that role, she worked closely with clients to help design long‑term estate planning strategies and represented them in contested proceedings when needed.

Alison Schrag of New York works closely with families, entrepreneurs, and owners of closely held or mid-sized businesses to create estate and trust planning strategies that align with their priorities and needs. She focuses on techniques that reduce tax burdens, enable orderly asset transfers, and anticipate possible incapacity. By ensuring that her clients understand their options, she guides them toward decisions that align with their long-term objectives and personal circumstances. Her clients range from first-generation entrepreneurs and owners of family-owned businesses to those with charitable interests and cross-border planning needs.

She has extensive experience in contested proceedings before the Surrogate’s Court, including contested account proceedings and contested kinship hearings. In such cases, she works closely with executors, trustees, personal representatives, and beneficiaries to protect their interests. In contested kinship proceedings, she guides families through the process of presenting genealogical evidence and testimony to establish their rightful inheritance. In every matter she handles, she strives to ensure that her client’s interests are effectively advocated for and safeguarded.

Alison Schrag is a trusted voice in the area of trusts and estates. She is frequently invited to speak to wealth advisory firms and their clients on topics such as core estate planning strategies, federal and state tax considerations, advanced planning for high-net-worth families, and succession planning for family-owned businesses. She earned her BA from Colgate University, graduating with honors, and her JD from Brooklyn Law School, where she served as an editor of the Brooklyn Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society. She has dedicated time to charitable efforts, serving as a crisis counselor and supporting food pantries and coat drives throughout New York. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons and spends her free time traveling, hiking, running, and volunteering.