Gary Bates Schreiner received his B.A. in Political Science from The American University in 1974 and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1977. He was awarded his Accredited Estate Planner (“AEP”) designation from the National Association of Estate Planning Councils in 1995.

Before entering private practice in 1988, Gary was a Trust Officer with Chase Manhattan Bank's Trust Department, U. S. Trust Company of New York's Personal Asset Management Division, and The Bank of New York's Personal Trust Division. Gary's responsibilities at Chase were in Estate Administration, and at US Trust he Administered hundreds of personal Trusts for which the Trust Company had been appointed Trustee. In 1985 he joined the Bank of New York providing Estate Planning for high net worth clients based at their Garden City office. Gary left Trust Banking to build a private practice focusing exclusively on Estate and Business Succession Planning, Estate and Trust Settlement and Administration.

Gary is a member of the New York State Bar Association Trust and Estates Section, American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust; Nassau County Bar Association; and the Nassau County Tax and Estate Planning Council. He is fortunate to be a longtime Director of the Emy and Emil Herzfeld Foundation, Inc., in NYC, and the President of the St. Boniface Parish Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, in Sea Cliff, New York.

Our firm is proud to be a founding Preferred Provider of legal services to the National Network of Accountants, [nnaplan.com] and a founding member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, [inblf.com], which now has branches in over thirty cities in the U.S. and Canada.

Gary is a frequent lecturer to consumers and his fellow professionals in the estate planning arena.

Gary is an avid if mediocre golfer, sailor, tennis player and skier. His wife Gail of twenty-eight years and his two daughters Erin and Liza are his most important assets.