Leonard J. Witman - a Florham Park, United States Estate Planning Lawyer

Florham Park Estate Planning Lawyer

Updated: 02/28/2026

Areas of Practice

Estate Planning
Pensions, Benefits & Compensation
Trusts
Estate Administration

Attorney Information

Overview

Leonard J. Witman is a senior tax and estate planning attorney at the firm of Witman Stadtmauer, P.A. He is a respected authority in tax, estate, retirement benefits and deferred compensation law and a well-known national lecturer and author on these subjects. Before entering private practice, Lenny worked as a Tax Law Specialist in the Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations Division for the Internal Revenue Service.

Lenny has extensive experience counseling clients regarding employee benefits such as 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans, defined benefit plans, cash balance plans, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, executive compensation, non-qualified deferred compensation, 409A compliance, health and other welfare benefit plans, cafeteria (Section 125) plans and other fringe benefits. In addition, he represents clients in audits before government agencies.

In 2020, Lenny was awarded the Dorothy G. Black Distinguished Service Award. This award recognized his distinguished service to the Trust and Estate part of the Real Property, Trust and Estate law section of the New Jersey State Bar Association for his work in trust and estate law in New Jersey. Lenny has held numerous leadership roles in professional organizations, including the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (serving as the former New Jersey chair) and the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel. He has chaired the New Jersey State Bar Association Employee Benefits Committee and Taxation Section. He is also the author of books and has taught law at Seton Hall Law School and Rutgers University Graduate Business School. Lenny has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 1995 and has been recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyers. To learn more about the selection process of these awards please click the following - Best Lawyers of America and Super Lawyers.

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Awards and Honors

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Honors

Best Lawyers of America*, 1995 - Present
Selected for inclusion in the New Jersey Super Lawyers*
Dorothy G. Black Distinguished Service Award

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Included on the 2026 New Jersey Super Lawyers list

Past Lists

2025 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2024 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2023 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2022 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2021 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2020 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2019 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2018 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2017 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2016 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2015 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2014 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2013 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2012 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2011 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2010 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2009 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2008 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2007 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2006 New Jersey Super Lawyers list
2005 New Jersey Super Lawyers list

Education

Legal Education
- New York Law School, New York, New York, 1975
  J.D.
Non Legal Education
- Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1972
  B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner
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Past Positions

Brach Eichler, Partner, 1981 - 1989
Lampf, Pleva, Associate, 1977 - 1980
Internal Revenue Service, Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations Division, Tax Law Specialist, Instructor and Lecturer, 1975 - 1977

References

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Bank of America
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Classes and Seminars

Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
Adjunct Professor, Graduate Business Program, Rutgers University

Published Works

Articles

A Retirement Planning Technique Book, The Kugler Company
Roth IRAs, The Kugler Company
Pension Planning after TEFRA, Top-Heavy Plans, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Bar Admissions

U.S. Federal Courts, 1975
New Jersey, 1975
New York, 1976
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1976
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1976
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1976
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1976
U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
U.S. Tax Court, 1977

Other Affiliations

The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) (Former New Jersey State Chair)
New Jersey State Bar Association, Taxation Section (Past Chairman)
New Jersey State Bar Association (Past Chairman, Employee Benefits Committee)
Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC)

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Florham Park, NJ

26 Columbia Turnpike
Suite 100
Florham Park, NJ 07932 - 2246

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Phone: 973-822-0220

Fax: 973-822-1188

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