KASSOFF, ROBERT & LERNER, LLP ATTORNEYS AT LAW
100 Merrick Road
West Building . Suite 508
( 516) 766 7700 Fax (516) 766-0738 JOAN LENSKY ROBERT is a member of KASSOFF, ROBERT & LERNER LLP, a law firm in Rockville Centre, New York practicing exclusively in the areas of elder law and disability law. Ms. Robert is a graduate of Skidmore College, where she was a member of Periclean, the Skidmore College Honor Society, the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied pursuant to a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and Touro College School of Law, summa cum laude, where she was the recipient of a Deans Fellowship and was valedictorian of the part time division. Prior to entering the practice of law, Ms. Robert taught French with the Valley Stream Central High School District. Ms. Robert served as Chair of the New York State Bar Association Elder Law Section from 2003-2004. Ms. Robert is a Director of the Nassau County Bar Association and is a past chair of its Elder Law/Social Services/Health Advocacy Committee. Ms. Robert is a past Dean of the Nassau Academy of Law. She serves as Secretary of the New York Chapter of NAELA, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. She is Co-Chair of the Special Needs Planning Committee of the New York State Bar Association and will serve as Co- Chair of the Special Needs Planning Summit sponsored by NAELA in February, 2009. A member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Long Island Alzheimer’s foundation, Ms. Robert was honored for outstanding service in 1997. Ms. Robert was also honored for her outstanding service to Project Real in October, 2001 and was a member of the 2004 Class Leadership of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Long Island. Ms. Robert serves on the Board of Editors of the Bill of Particulars, the publication of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, which honored her as outstanding downstate speaker in May, 1998. Ms. Robert is a past Editor in Chief of the New York Elder Law and Guardianship Newsletter, West Publications. She co-wrote the chapter on Creative Advocacy in the book Guardianship Practice in New York State and wrote the chapters on Medicaid liens and planning in Personal Injury Actions in New York published by the New York State Bar Association. The author of numerous articles for community groups and professional groups concerning elder law and disability law, Ms. Robert has been a faculty member at various Bar Association programs concerning Elder Law, Supplemental Needs Trusts and asset preservation, and has been an instructor at certified training programs for Guardians, Supplemental Needs Trust Trustees and Court Evaluators sponsored by the New York State Bar Association, the Nassau Academy of Law, St. John’s University, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York County Lawyers Association. Joan and her husband, Charles, are the proud parents of Heather Robert Coffman, an education law attorney in San Francisco, and Jay Robert, a graduate of Cardozo Law School, and the doting grandparents of Naomi Rose Coffman.
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