Paul, Weiss and Partners

A partner and co-chair of the Personal Representation Department, Alan S. Halperin counsels clients on a broad range of issues including estate planning and related tax work, estate and trust administration, tax and succession planning for family corporations and partnerships and charitable giving. Mr. Halperin works closely with a variety of clients, including entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investment bankers, real estate developers, family offices and philanthropists to help them identify their objectives and provide creative and pragmatic solutions designed to meet their specific goals. Mr. Halperin is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law where he teaches Advanced Estate and Gift Taxation and Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates. He has lectured extensively on estate planning subjects, including at the Heckerling Institute, and has written articles that have appeared in publications such as Trusts & Estates, Estate Planning, Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, Tax Management Memorandum and New York Law Journal. He was selected by Chambers USA 2006-2008 as one of the leading lawyers for Wealth Management. In addition, Mr. Halperin is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He also is on the advisory board for the Tax Management, Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal and has been a member on various committees for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He serves on the tax panel for the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc.

Professor Jerome A. Cohen is a Senior Fellow for Asia, Council on Foreign Relations; a law professor at New York University School of Law; and is of counsel to the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Mr. Cohen specializes in the international legal problems of East Asia. Mr. Cohen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1951). He spent the academic year 1951-1952 as a Fulbright Scholar in France and graduated in 1955 from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal and Order of the Coif. He was Law Secretary to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1955 Term and Law Secretary to Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court in the 1956 Term. He subsequently practiced law, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and was a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations before beginning his academic career at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley in 1959. He moved to Harvard Law School in 1964 and remained a faculty member there until he joined Paul, Weiss in 1981.

Sidney Rosdeitcher is a retired litigation partner from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, L.L.P., where he is now Of Counsel. He was lead counsel in the Center's defense of Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance and worked with the Center in earlier living wage litigation in St. Louis. He has long been active in public interest matters. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association, chaired its Committees on International Human Rights and Professional and Judicial Ethics, and Council on International Affairs and is now chair of its Civil Rights Committee. He is a Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and co-chair of its Subcommittee on the Powers of Congress. He received the Lawyers Committee's Segal Tweed Award for his contribution to civil rights and Human Rights First's Marvin E. Frankel Pro Bono Award for his asylum work. He also taught civil liberties at Brooklyn Law School and ethics at Columbia Law School. Before joining Paul, Weiss, Mr. Rosdeitcher served in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and on leave of absence from Paul, Weiss, as assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Rosdeitcher received his B.A. from Columbia in 1958 and L.L.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1961, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review.