Leonard J. Witman

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. *No aspect of this advertising has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Leonard J. Witman included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Best Lawyers of America*, 1995 - Present Selected for inclusion in the New Jersey Super Lawyers* Dorothy G. Black Distinguished Service Award Other Sources of Feedback About Leonard J. Witman Included on the 2026New 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

• Partner

• 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
• Bank of America

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

• 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

• 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)