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James K. Estabrook
Westfield: 908-233-6800 ext. 2358
jestabrook@lindabury.com
Jim Estabrook is a partner of the firm of Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. He has devoted most of his thirty years with the firm attending to the legal requirements of privately held businesses. Jim has developed several areas of emphasis including federal and state estate and gift taxation, ERISA and employee benefits law.
Jim serves as general counsel for the firm to the Mechanical Contractors Association of New Jersey, Inc. and the Mechanical Contracting Industry Council of New Jersey. Through that role Jim has served, since 1982, as co-counsel to the Boards of Trustees of Pipefitters Local Union No. 274 Employee Benefit Funds, Steamfitters Local Union No. 475 Employee Benefit Funds, Plumbers Local Union No. 24 Employee Benefit Funds, Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union No. 9 Employee Benefit Funds and the Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning and Service Division (U.A.-N.J.).
His most recent engagements are as co-counsel to the IBEW Local 456 Employee Benefit Funds, IBEW Local 400 Employee Benefit Funds and the Teamsters Local 469 Employee Benefit Funds. Jim serves as an employer trustee for the IBEW Local 102 Employee Benefit Funds, and the Plumbers Local Union No. 17 Employee Benefit Funds and U.A. Local Union No. 614 Employee Benefit Funds of Memphis, Tennessee, and the U.A. Local 502 Employee Benefit Funds of Louisville, Kentucky. He is approved counsel for all fiduciary liability insurance claims with St. Paul Travelers and defends Trustees of both single and multi-employer plans before the United States District Court and investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service.
Jim regularly speaks before clients and civic organizations on estate planning and employee benefits. In estate planning he has appeared before the National Council on Aging, Committee on Aging and the Law; New Jersey State Bar Association; Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers of New Jersey; New Jersey Association of Area Agencies on Aging (Elder Abuse and Neglect Project); the Elder Law Committee of the Union County Bar Association; the National Society of Fund Raising Executives; and the assembled staffs of many of the firm’s clients including Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, Inc., and Trinitas Hospital.
On employee benefits, he has consistently appeared as a featured speaker before the International Conference and Specialized Conferences of the International Foundation of Employee Benefits; the Plumbing Contractors Association of Chicago; the Annual Conference of the Union Affiliated Contractors of the National Association of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors; the Taft-Hartley Trustee seminar sponsored by the United Association and the Mechanical Contractors Association of New Jersey, Inc.; the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc., Industry Improvement Funds Seminar; the Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors of Northern Illinois Industry Promotion Fund Seminar; and the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc., Region I Employee Benefits Conference. Jim is the author of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc.’s Industry Improvement Fund Operations Guide, and co-author with the New Jersey Division of Taxation of the Mechanical Contractors Association of New Jersey, Inc.’s Sales and Use Tax Manual for New Jersey Mechanical Contractors.
Jim also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of several of the firm’s clients including the Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce (legal counsel); Union County Alliance; Kean University Foundation; Kessler Foundation (Chairman), Community Foundation of New Jersey (Legal Advisory Committee); and Linden Industrial Association (Secretary).
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1982
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1986
U.S. Tax Court, 1986
Memberships:
American Bar Association
Union County Probate Early Settlement Program
Education:
Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, J.D., 1981
Denison University, B.A., cum laude, 1977
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Practice:
Pension Plans
Employee Benefits
Trusts and Estates
Taxation
Publications
Speaking Engagements
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