Farrell Fritz, P.C.
BY TONI N. CIMINO
John J. Barnosky of Farrell Fritz, P.C. was recently selected for inclusion in The Best of the U.S.’s 2008 list of the best professionals in the U.S.
Barnosky is a partner in the firm’s trusts and estates department. His practice focuses on estate litigation; estate planning, probate and administration of estates and trusts; and taxation.
In 2007, he was named a “Super Lawyer in New York” by Super Lawyers Magazine, metro edition. He has also been named one of the Best Trusts & Estates Lawyers in America by American Lawyer.
Barnosky serves on the EPTL/SCPA Advisory Committee established by the New York State Legislature to review and modernize statutes relating to trusts and estates. He is a member of the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association and a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. Barnosky is a former Chair of the
4,500-member Trust and Estate Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and was a member of the NYSBA’s Task Force on Court Reorganization.
Barnosky has been the editor of the North Fork Bank Estate Review and has written numerous articles published in the New York Law Journal, The New York State Bar Journal, The Nassau Lawyer, and The Journal of the Suffolk Academy of Law. He is a frequent lecturer at New York State Bar Association seminars on trust and estate practice.
Barnosky earned his LL.M. in taxation in 1974 from New York University School of Law and his Juris Doctor degree in 1967 from St. John’s University School of Law. He received his A.B. degree in 1964 from Assumption College.
