Attorney Biographies - Jeffrey Fetter
Jeffrey M. Fetter
(315) 471-8111
Direct Fax: (315) 425-3656
E-mail address: jfetter@scolaro.com
Jeffrey M. Fetter is a partner of Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Fetter & Burstein, P.C. in Syracuse, New York and is Chairman of the Business Practice Group. His statewide practice focuses on business, estate, tax, succession and transactional planning for closely held and family owned enterprises. Legal services Jeff provides his clients include: state, federal and international tax and business planning; estate and long term care planning; business and succession planning for closely held and family owned business enterprises; e-commerce planning; employee and shareholder/principal relations and employee benefits; protection of intellectual property; transactional planning; acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, tax-free reorganization of business entities; entity structuring; contract negotiation, dispute resolution; international contracts and business planning and the dissolutions of business entities.
Jeff is licensed to practice in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Clients Jeff represents are involved in farm and agriculture related businesses, professional service, e-commerce, manufacturing, communications and retail businesses.
Jeff is a frequent lecturer for the New York State Bar Association and other professional and civic groups in the area of business and estate planning. He has authored several articles on business and estate planning for various periodicals. He is also the President of the Cultural Resources Council of Onondaga County.
Practice Groups
- Business
- Professional Practices
- Employee Benefits
- Tax
- Estate Planning
- Real Estate
Education
- Ohio Northern University College of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1983
- State University of New York at Geneseo, B.S., 1977
Memberships
- Onondaga County Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
– Chairperson, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section
– Member, Tax Section and Elder Law Section - Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation
- American Agricultural Law Association
- Member of the New York Farm Bureau
- Board of Directors, New York Agriculture Development Corporation
- Past President of the Cultural Resources Council
Publications
- "How to Stay Down on the Farm", Washington State Agriculture Institute (July 2008)
- "The Law and You - Prenuptial Agreements & Farm Business Planning", Northeast Dairy Business, Vol. 10, No. 3 (March 2008)
- "Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements in Business and Estate Planning"
for the NYSBA publication, One on One, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Winter 2004) - "Business Succession Planning: Passing on to the Next Generation."
International Association of Financial Planners – Fourteenth Annual Symposium - "Formation and Maintenance of the Close Corporation and Limited Liability Company."
New York State Bar Association - "Choice of Operating Entity - Liability, Tax, Succession and Business Issues."
New York State Bar Association
Awards
- Best Lawyers in America 2011, 2012
- New York Super Lawyers - Upstate Edition: 2007
