William B. Warren Joins Morris & McVeigh LLP

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--Morris & McVeigh LLP today announced that William B. Warren has
joined the firm as of counsel. Mr. Warren specializes in trust and
estates and tax law, and has long been recognized in Best Lawyers in
America as a leader in the field of trust and estates.

For the past forty-eight years, Mr. Warren has been practicing
trust and estates and tax law at Dewey Ballantine LLP (now Dewey &
LeBoeuf LLP), where he became a partner in 1968. In his new position,
he will be continuing his work in estate planning and administration
and his roles in not-for-profit organizations.

Richard J. Miller, Jr., a member of Morris & McVeigh said, "Bill
was a pioneer in the development of insurance and foreign trusts as
significant estate planning devices, and has had wide leadership
experience in charitable planning throughout the United States. These
are important areas for us as well, and we welcome Bill's insights and
expertise."

Mr. Warren has served as a Regent, American College of Trust and
Estates Council, Chair of the Fiduciary Income Tax Committee, Tax
Section, New York State Bar Association, and as member of the
Surrogate's Court Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New
York.

Mr. Warren added, "I am delighted to be joining Morris & McVeigh
which I have long admired as one of the leaders in the trusts and
estates bar. I much look forward to working with its superb staff of
estate and trust planners and administrators."

Mr. Warren has been responsible for planning a number of major
estates, many involving transfers to younger generations of interests
in family businesses and real estate holding companies. He has
overseen the administration of many complex decedents' estates both in
the United States and abroad, and has published a number of articles
and lectured extensively on T&E and tax law. In addition, he has had
extensive litigation experience, in some cases as counsel for
objectants to probate, and in others representing fiduciaries of wills
and trusts under attack. He played a major role in the Seward Johnson
Will contest, in which he represented the Family Foundation.

Mr. Warren is vice president of the Academy of American Poets, and
serves on a number of charitable and educational boards including St.
John's College of Annapolis and Santa Fe; the John Carter Brown
Library, Providence, RI; Foundation for Cultural Review, publisher of
The New Criterion; and The Hudson Review. He is also Chairman of
Institute for Schools of the Future in New York City; Chairman
Emeritus of The Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, Trustee of the Alice E.
and Arthur F. Adams Foundation of Miami, and Trustee of the Hodson
Trust of Baltimore, MD.

Mr. Warren is a founding member of the Bankers and Lawyers
Advisory Committee to the New York Philharmonic, and since 1995, an
Advisory Director of the Metropolitan Opera Association. He is a past
president of the Grolier Club, former member of the Council of Fellows
of the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, and is a Trustee of the American
Friends of the British Library.

Morris & McVeigh LLP is one of the oldest law firms in New York
City and the state of New York and has been in continuous existence
since its founding in 1862. The firm offers comprehensive legal
services to foreign and domestic clients both individual and
corporate, to partnerships, other business entities and to various
not-for-profit organizations and foundations. These services include
matters relating to estate planning, probate and estate
administration, the law of Wills and Trusts, matrimonial matters,
income, estate and gift taxation, corporate, securities and general
business law, real estate and commercial law and general civil
practice. The firm also has offices in Albany, New York.

For Morris & McVeigh LLP
Joanne Lessner, 212-222-7436
jlessner@nyc.rr.com

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