Sidney D. Rosoff received a B.S. degree in banking and finance from New York University in 1949 (after a term of service in the U.S. Army Air Force), a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1952 and a Master of Laws in taxation from New York University in 1959. Upon graduation from Harvard he joined the firm which later became Parker Duryee Rosoff & Haft until its merger with Reed Smith LLP in 2002. In 2003 he joined McLaughlin & Stern as a partner. His areas of concentration include estate planning, trust and estate administration, charitable organizations and foundations and not-for-profit corporations.

Mr. Rosoff is a member of the Committee on Exempt Organizations of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and is also a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He also presently serves on the Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Courts of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Rosoff is a member of the board of directors of the American Red Cross of Greater New York and is secretary of the American Craft Council. He is a former president of the Society of the Right to Die, the Hemlock Society USA and was the founding president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.