Terence E. Smolev, Esq.
tsmolev@forchellilaw.com

Terence E. Smolev (Washington College of Law at The American University, 1969; New York University Graduate School of Law {LL.M. in Taxation}, 1974) began his legal career at the international accounting firm of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG). Mr. Smolev is partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Tax, Trusts, and Estates Department.

He has an "AV" legal ability and ethics rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory – the very highest rating this nationally recognized publication has established. This rating is based upon extensive confidential peer review surveys.

Mr. Smolev has been an adjunct professor at Hofstra University Schools of Business and Law, where he taught accounting, business law, tax law, and estate planning. He has edited tax-related professional texts, authored articles for The New York Law Journal and has served as an expert source for a number of Newsday articles. His chapter entitled, "Estate Planning Client Strategies," has been published in the 2009 Aspatore book, Inside the Minds: Estate Planning Client Strategies.

Mr. Smolev is an impartial Hearing Officer for disputes in the public school and municipal government systems and also practices in education law. He is a member of the American, New York State, and Nassau County Bar Associations, and the New York State Association of School Attorneys, where he served as President in 1984.

Mr. Smolev is a member of the New York City Police Museum Board of Trustees and serves as Vice President and Trustee on its Executive Board. He served as member of the Long Island Cabinet for Israeli Bonds, and on the Nassau County Comptroller’s Audit Advisory Committee. He currently serves on the North Shore-LIJ Health System Foundation Professional Advisor’s Committee, the Long Island Community Foundation's Professional Advisory Committee and is a Board member of the Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. He is a past President of the Pickett Farm Homeowners Association and for 14 years served on the Hofstra University Board of Trustees. Mr. Smolev was featured in the Long Island Business News’ listing of “Who’s Who in Tax Law” (2006), Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law, and New York Magazine’s Super Lawyers (2009).

Practice Areas: Tax, Trusts and Estates, Corporate & Commercial
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