Practice Areas:


• Taxation
  

James P. O'Connor is a practicing attorney with over 25 year's tax experience. His practice concentrates primarily in the areas of estate & tax planning, and trust & estate administration. He is a Tax Principal for Albrecht, Viggiano, Zureck & Co., P.C., one of the largest full-service certified public accounting firms on Long Island, where his duties include client representation in federal and state tax controversies, trust and estate tax matters, and tax and estate planning.

Mr. O'Connor graduated with honors from Hofstra University (BBA-Accounting) in 1980 and began his professional career with the Internal Revenue Service in 1981. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree (Cum Laude) from Brooklyn Law School in 1988 and his Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) in Taxation from New York University in 1992. In 2011 Mr. O'Connor received the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils esteemed Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) designation.

He is a member of the New York State & Suffolk County Bar Associations, the United States District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Tax Court. He currently is Chair of the Tax Committee of the Suffolk County Bar Association, a member and Director of the Nassau County Estate Planning Council and a Director and Chair of the Finance Committee of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.