Mr. Novogrod concentrates his practice in the areas of domestic and international estate planning and trust and estate administration.

Mr. Novogrod counsels wealthy families and individuals, and highlycompensated executives and venture capitalists, in connection with theplanning of significant and complex estates and trusts. He also represents individual and corporate fiduciaries with regard to the administration of such estates and trusts. Mr. Novogrod advises with regard to gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning; charitable giving; contested estate and trust matters; corporate and tax issues affecting closely-held businesses and their owners; and planning for the transfer of the ownership of such entities at death. In addition, Mr. Novogrod advises several family offices and has assisted wealthy families in creating family offices. He has represented numerous nonresident aliens of the US in connection with their worldwide estate and asset protection planning. He has also counseled with respect to the creation of off-shore banks and trust companies.

After graduating from Yale Law School in May 1967, he served as a Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Navy and left active duty in April 1971.

Mr. Novogrod is a frequent speaker and author on the topic of estate planning. He has co-authored articles that have appeared in publications such as Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal and Trusts & Estates Magazine. He is also the co-author of a book entitled Law and Vietnam. Additionally, Mr. Novogrod authored a chapter of a treatise on international criminal law.

Mr. Novogrod has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2009-2010) and New York Super Lawyers (2006-2009).

J.D., Yale Law School, 1967
B.A., Harvard University, 1964

New York, 1968

Philanthropic Activities 
Member of the Board of Directors and President of The Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust (CT) 
Member of the Board of Directors of the New Milford Hospital, New Milford, CT 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Planned Development Alliance of Northwest Connecticut 
Director of several family charitable foundations 
Planned Giving Advisory Boards of The Museum of Modern Art and the New York Public Library

New York State Bar Association 
American Bar Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York 
Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Court of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1994-1997
Harvard Club of New York City 
Knickerbocker Club (New York City) 
Lake Waramaug Country Club (Washington, CT)