ALBANY, NEW YORK — David E. Siegfeld, partner and team leader of the firm’s trusts & estates practice team, served as a judge at the Blackstone LaunchPad at the University of Albany’s eighth annual Innovation Competition. The innovation competition provided students and aspiring entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their business ideas and gain valuable feedback from judges. The firm also sponsored the competition by providing the winners of the competition with two free hours of consultation on any business-related matters handled by the firm.

David E. Siegfeld has been practicing law since 1996, beginning his professional legal career as an assistant attorney general in the Charities Bureau concentrating in the area of trusts & estates and not-for-profit law. David currently counsels businesses and individuals on a wide range of business transactional and planning matters, commercial and residential real estate transactions, estate litigation, planning & probate matters, as well as business succession planning. His expertise has been recognized by local surrogate’s court judges who have called upon him to assist in complicated estate litigation and probate matters on behalf of incapacitated individuals.

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