Jurij Mykolajtchuk is Of Counsel to Jill Miller & Associates, P.C., specializing in counseling clients regarding sophisticated estate planning, with particular focus on tax issues and estate and trust administration. Prior to joining Jill Miller & Associates, P.C., Jurij worked as a trusts and estates attorney at Schlesinger, Gannon & Lazetera LLP, Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Shearman & Sterling in New York. Jurij also worked as a trusts and estates/tax attorney at Hannoch Weissman in New Jersey. Prior to becoming an attorney, Jurij worked as an Assistant Vice President – Tax, at Citicorp, and as a Certified Public Accountant at Price Waterhouse, focusing on tax planning and compliance. Before focusing his career on taxation, Jurij worked as a financial analyst at Johnson & Johnson. Jurij is fluent in Ukranian.

 

Education:
Georgetown University, 1983, Bachelor of Science in Finance cum laude

Drexel University, 1986, Master of Science in Accounting

Rutgers University School of Law, 1994, JD

New York University School of Law, 1999, LLM in Tax

Admitted:
1994, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania (inactive)

Certifications:
Certified Public Accountant (inactive); Certified Management Accountant (inactive).

Member:
American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New Jersey Bar Association

Publications:
Jurij is responsible for updating various chapters on Federal and New York transfer taxes in the “Warren’s Heaton on Surrogate’s Court Practice” Treatise. Jurij also assists in editing the “New Jersey Elder and Disability Law Practice” Treatise.