Prof. Ira M. Bloom
Trusts and Estates Section
Prof. Ira M. Bloom of Albany (Albany Law
School) has been elected chair of the Trusts and
Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Bloom received his undergraduate degree from City
College of New York and earned his law degree from Syracuse University
College of Law.
Bloom is the Justice David Josiah Brewer Distinguished
Professor of Law at Albany Law School. He teaches in the areas of property, taxation and wealth
transmission. Prior to joining the Albany Law School faculty in 1979,
he taught for five years at Loyola University College of Law in
New
Orleans and was a trial and
appellate attorney in the Tax Division of the United States Department
of Justice.
A long-tenured member of the Trusts and Estates Law
Section, Bloom has served on the section’s executive committee
since 2006. He is a current member of the
Elder Law Section and the Trusts and Estates Law Section’s Ad Hoc
Committee on Multi-State Practice and Committee on Taxation. He
previously served on the Trusts and Estates Law Section’s
Committee on Estates and Trusts and Estate and Trust
Administration.
A widely published writer and nationally recognized
expert on estate planning, Bloom is the principal author of the
two-volume treatise Drafting New York Wills and the co-author of several
law school casebooks on tax law and trusts and estates law. Bloom is
also a frequent lecturer on estate planning.
The 76,000-member New York State Bar Association is
the official statewide organization of lawyers in New
York and the largest
voluntary state bar association in the nation. Founded in 1876, NYSBA programs and activities have
continuously served the public and improved the justice system for more
than 130 years.
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