Timothy B. Thornton
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Phone: (518) 447-3395
Fax: (518) 426-4260
677 Broadway, P.O. Box 459
Albany, New York 12201-0459
Chairman of the firm’s Trusts and Estates Department for more than 15 years, Timothy B. Thornton joined the firm in 1970 and has been a principal since 1975. Mr. Thornton’s areas of concentration are trusts and estates, wills, estate planning and administration, and estate litigation. His practice encompasses all aspects of trusts and estates law, including financial and estate planning, drafting of trusts, wills and other instruments for wealth transfer, elder law, and probate and administration of estates and trusts.
Mr. Thornton has represented numerous CEOs and professionals, business owners and their families, as well as numerous local and national trust companies.
He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in the United States District Court, Northern District.
Education
J.D., Albany Law School of Union University, 1970
Albany Law Review, Recent Decisions Editor
A.B., Union College, 1967
Professional Associations and Community Involvement
- New York State Bar Association—Trusts and Estates Law Section, former chairperson, former chair of that section’s committee on legislation and former editor of that section’s newsletter
- The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, one of three Fellows elected from Albany, former Temporary Upstate Chair
- Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York, former Director
- New York Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Non-Profit Racing Association Oversight Board, member, appointed by Governor Pataki in 2004
- Union College, Annual Business Campaign, Chairperson, Co-Chairperson, or Honorary Chairperson since 1997
- St. Andrews Society of Albany, former President
Publications
Lecturer/Panelist
- Participant in numerous Bar Association and professional educational seminars as both a speaker and chairperson.
- Church Property Disputes, Albany Law Review, Volume 33, No. 2, page 388
- Provisional Remedies in New York Reappraised Under Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp.: A Constitutional Fly in the Creditor’s Ointment, Albany Law Review, Volume 34, No. 2, page 426
Click here for a full list of lectures by Timothy B. Thornton.
Awards
- Named a Super Lawyer in the 2007 and 2008 Upstate New York Editions of Super Lawyer magazine for estate planning & probate, trust & estate litigation, and real estate.
- Named in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989.
- Listed in the International Who’s Who of Professionals.