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Carolyn Levy Gilliam is an attorney and member at McDonald, Levy & Taylor, PLLC. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. She primarily practices in the areas of wills, trusts, elder law, conservatorships, probates, business matters, and litigation regarding these areas. She was named as a Top Attorney for 2023 in the Knoxville Cityview Magazine in Elder Law, Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills/Probate, Social Security Disability, and Adoption. She was also selected as Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Elder Law, Trusts & Estates & Litigation - Trust & Estates. This recognition is awarded to lawyers who exhibit "Outstanding professional excellence in private practice." Ms. Gilliam also serves in a fiduciary capacity for her clients, as a trustee of a trust, personal representative/executrix of a will, power of attorney, or a court-appointed conservator. Carolyn has worked at McDonald, Levy & Taylor since her senior year at Farragut high school. She received her Bachelors in Business Administration with a concentration in Financial Management from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and had the highest GPA of Management majors in her class. She has been selected into the Academic Honor Society of Phi Eta Sigma and is also a member of numerous bar associations, including the Knoxville Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, and the Tennessee Association for Justice. Carolyn is married and the mother of a young daughter and son. She and her husband, Eric, live in Farragut. Carolyn loves to play golf and played Division I college golf at Mercer University. She is a member at Fox Den Country Club in Farragut, Tennessee. Carolyn is a Board Member and past Co-Treasurer of the Dream Connection, Inc., an all-volunteer organization that fulfills the dreams of children that have life-threatening illnesses. She is also the President and Chair of the board of Legacy Housing Foundation whose mission is to provide innovative programs, life-enhancing services, and strong affordable housing communities for everyone in need. She is also an active partner of Shoreline Church.

Jed is licensed in Tennessee and Georgia. In addition, he is admitted to practice Law in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, and is a Certified Trial Counsel under Article 27 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis School of Law and earned his Juris Doctorate in 2015.. Jed is also a Captain in the Army's Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) serving in the U.S. Army Reserve. Jed currently serves as the National Security Law Attorney for the 244th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade located at Fort Knox, KY.  He has previously been assigned to support the operations of the 101st Airborne Division as an Administrative Law Attorney and served on active duty as the Chief of Military Justice for the Army Reserve Aviation Command.

Anthony Muscente, Jr., Attorney-At-Law, is a general practitioner in Allentown, New Jersey.  He has been practicing law for over forty (40) years and has a wide-range of experience in providing legal representation to individuals and businesses throughout the State of New Jersey. His experience also includes the representation of various governmental agencies at the State and local levels.. Mr. Muscente’s practice covers most of the more traditional “general practice” areas such as business entity formation and representation, commercial litigation, debt collections, estate planning and administration, insurance claims, real estate transactions, leasing and landlord-tenant disputes, municipal court, personal injury, workers’ compensation, social security disability claims, land use and zoning and administrative appeals and hearings. In addition, his practice covers the area of alternate dispute resolution; including mediation and arbitration. He is a qualified mediator pursuant to New Jersey Rule 1:40; and is also admitted to the New Jersey Superior Court’s Roster of Civil Arbitrators in several vicinages pursuant to Rules 4:21A-2 and 1:40-12(c).. Mr. Muscente’s practice and experience encompasses not only not only the diverse practice areas noted above but also many more complex matters such as cases involving sophisticated real estate transactions, community associations, construction law and defects, condemnations, guardianships, environmental law, mortgage foreclosures, contract disputes and enforcement, consumer fraud, and governmental regulation and permitting. Furthermore, he represents owners and tenants on real estate tax appeals at both the County Tax Board and State Tax Court levels.. Mr. Muscente has a strong background in the areas of practice involving residential, commercial and governmental real estate transactions.  His background relating to these areas ranges from house purchases and sales to real estate developments and major redevelopment projects, planned communities, land acquisitions and assemblage, financing and land preservation.  The redevelopment projects include “transit villages” and projects in Atlantic City and the Meadowlands District. He has provided representation in connection with the largest brownsfield redevelopment project in the history of the United States and on other numerous and unique redevelopment projects throughout the State of New Jersey.. For example, Mr. Muscente has provided representation to the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (“CRDA”) and New Jersey Transit (“NJT”); particularly in connection with several major redevelopment projects undertaken by these public agencies. His experience includes the representation of CRDA in connection with its “Corridor Project” in Atlantic City commonly known as “The Walk” and of NJT in connection with its Secaucus Rail Transfer Station project and its Morristown Transit Village project, among others. The Walk is the first major retail/entertainment/parking project of its kind in Atlantic City and the Morristown Transit Village project, known as “Highlands At Morristown Station” is the first Transit Oriented Development (“TOD”) built under NJT’s Transit Village Program.. Mr. Muscente has also represented regional and national level builders in connection with various real estate development projects.  His experience includes the preparation and submittal of “Public Offering Statements” for various types of “planned communities” to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs for registration.. In addition to providing representation in connection with real estate projects that are in furtherance of the State’s objectives for “Smart Growth”, urban renewal and the clean-up of   brownfields, Mr. Muscente is also proud to have been counsel on transactions that have resulted in the preservation of hundred of acres of land for open space and parks as well as agricultural use.. Mr. Muscente has practiced as a partner at a prestigious law firm in Princeton, New Jersey and is a former Deputy Attorney General (“DAG”) in the Environmental Permitting and Counseling Section of the New Jersey Attorney General’s office.  As a DAG, Mr.  Muscente represented various state agencies such as the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (“NJMC”), the State Soil Conservation Committee (“SSCC”) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.  He was the lead counsel to the SSCC and worked closely with its Executive Secretary as well as the Secretary of the State Department of Agriculture (who serves as the chairperson of the SSCC).. He also provided legal representation to the NJMC on a wide variety of matters, such as violation and penalty enforcement matters, land-use and permitting related cases, several complex litigation matters and on numerous open space and wetlands acquisitions, in addition to other various transactional matters. He was responsible for the acquisition and assemblage of the lands needed in connection with a major mixed-use redevelopment project undertaken by the NJMC extending over three (3) municipalities and requiring the closure and/or remediation of both regulated and “orphan” landfills.  That project has been recognized as the largest brownfields redevelopment project in the history of the United States with a project cost of over one (1) billion dollars.. As a DAG, Mr. Muscente also provided representation to the NJDEP in connection with litigation matters.  His litigation work as counsel for the NJMC, NJDEP and SSCC included administrative appeals and hearings, defense of “Environmental Rights Act” cases, “Actions In Lieu of Prerogative Writs”, cases involving the regulation of solid waste and water pollution, construction surety bond cases, easement and license dispute litigation matters and similar matters.. In the private sector, Mr. Muscente’s litigation experience is also diverse and extends to the prosecution and defense of construction defects cases, commercial collection and foreclosure cases, contract disputes, personal injury cases, probate matters, landlord/tenancy matters and many other types of cases. Such representation has included the defense of subcontractors/suppliers in connection with multi-party construction defects cases involving planned communities and other major projects, including fire retardant plywood cases.  His clients have included one of the nation’s largest distributors and installers of pre-engineered fireplaces and related components (as that company’s New Jersey counsel); as well as the owner of five supermarket stores, in addition to numerous condominium and homeowners associations and many other businesses and individuals.. A graduate of Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Muscente earned his law degree from Southwestern University School of Law, in Los Angeles, California.  He also attained a Diplomate in New Jersey Municipal Law from Rutgers University’s Bureau of Government Research.. Mr. Muscente’s law office is centrally located on Main Street in historic Allentown, New Jersey, just a short distance from both Exits 7 and 8 of Interstate 195 as well as the New Jersey Turnpike.  The law office is easily accessible from most parts of the State via major highways.. For Further details regarding Mr. Muscente’s experience and practice, please visit his firm’s website at .

Attorney Brenda M. Rivard and her paralegal, Teresa A. Amici, are here to assist you with your legal needs. Attorney Rivard knows that in this day and age of ever-changing laws, it is necessary for her to focus her practice on related areas of the law in order to provide the best representation possible for her clients. Attorney Rivard focuses her practice on elder law, estate planning, special needs planning, estate administration (probate) and guardianships and conservatorships. This includes Wills, Trusts, Health Care Proxies, Durable Powers of Attorney, and Declarations of Homestead for all ages, planning for individuals with special needs or disabilities, asset preservation, Medicaid (MassHealth) planning and applications.. Attorney Rivard addresses the lifetime needs of individuals, couples, and families at all stages of life to preserve their choices, assets and values. She assists in planning for the maintenance and welfare of your families, health care, residential transitions, incapacity and death.. The firm is located on the first floor of a home in a residential area with convenient on-street parking in Worcester, Massachusetts. Attorney Rivard encourages her clients to think of her as their “primary care attorney.” She will provide you with the appropriate advice in those areas in which she practices, and refer you to another attorney or professional whom she trusts if your concern is outside of her areas of practice or expertise. If you are unable to come to the office due to your health or other circumstances, she can visit with clients in their homes, hospitals and nursing homes.. Listen to her radio show “Life’s Transitions” on Emmanuel Radio on Sundays at 2:30 p.m., Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. at 1230AM/970AM/ or .  You can also listen to podcasts of her radio show by going to .

Andrey Milvidskiy is admitted to practice law in the states of New York and New Jersey, as well as the federal courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey, and as a patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Mr. Milvidskiy has a J.D., cum laude, from Rutgers University School of Law, and an M.B.A. from DePaul University. Prior to joining the legal profession, Mr. Milvidskiy spent over 10 years in business consulting, working with entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Prior to joining the legal profession, he was a founding member and executive manager in a number of business endeavors both in the United States and Europe.

I love this kind of work because of the incredible sense of accomplishment I get in seeing the difference between our first meeting with our clients and our last.. Mrs. Kahl graduated from Duke University School of Law with High Honors, and went on to clerk for Chief Judge John W. Bissell in New Jersey Federal District Court in Newark for two years. From there Mrs. Kahl went to Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Veccione, P.C., where she practiced criminal defense law. Subsequently, she worked as an Arbitration Associate for the Honorable Nicholas H. Politan, former Federal District Court Judge, and then practiced employment law litigation with Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C.. Mrs. Kahl was named a 2012 “Rising Star” by New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine.

We strongly believe that a well thought plan that is implemented and maintained properly will create peace and calmness during life and make transitions through generations smooth and cost efficient. Attorney Patrick Banks strives to connect with each and every client to help identify the client’s goals and devising customized estate plans to avoid potential road blocks in achieving those goals.. Before starting his own law firm, Mr. Banks practiced law for several years at large law firms focusing on litigation where he learned creative ways to identify and solve problems facing large organizations. During this time, he represented clients in multi-million dollar litigation in the federal District Courts of New Jersey and New York as well as the state courts of New York and New Jersey.. While representing large corporations was both challenging and rewarding in its own way, Mr. Banks eventually decided that his law degree would be better used in representing individuals and their challenges. To that end, he left the large law firm world in 2007 to join a general law practice.. During this time he built a law practice with an emphasis on representing individuals in in estate planning and administration as well as elder law and family law matters. In that time, his background in litigation helped him successfully represent victims of nursing home and long term care facility negligence.. Mr. Banks graduated from Villanova University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2000 with a Juris Doctorate degree.

Mr. Solon is Of Counsel with the law firm of LaRocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg & Crupi, LLC, located in Freehold, N.J.  He was born in Lakewood, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers College, Rutgers University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Middle Eastern Studies.  Mr. Solon earned his law degree from Seton Hall University, School of Law in Newark in 2005.  At Seton Hall, Mr. Solon was awarded various distinctions and honors including the award of best oral advocate in the school’s Appellate Advocacy course. Mr. Solon was given the opportunity to participate and coach in the law school’s Jessup International Moot Court team.  Further, he also received the honor of a Federal Internship with the Honorable Nicholas Tsoucalas in the Court of International Trade.. Mr. Solon was admitted to the New Jersey Bar and the United States District Court, District of New Jersey in 2005.  He was admitted to the New York Bar in 2009.. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Solon was honored to serve as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Ralph L. De Luccia, J.S.C. for the 2005-2006 judicial term in the New Jersey Superior Court.. Following Mr. Solon’s Judicial Law Clerk, he entered private practice.  Specifically, Mr. Solon was employed with a large firm located in Newark, New Jersey.  His experience with the firm included representing individuals injured in motor vehicle accidents, slip and fall accidents, products liability matters, PIP Arbitrations, complex litigation, criminal representation, municipal court representation, appellate practice, real estate closings and employment matters.  Mr. Solon recovered millions of dollars for the benefit of his clients during his tenure at the Newark firm.. Mr. Solon has tried cases in the New Jersey Superior Court with success.  He has been reported in the New Jersey and National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis, the New Jersey Law Journal and Verdict Search.. In 2012, Mr. Solon joined a boutique Monmouth County firm, wherein he focused on representing individuals in personal injury matters, representing corporations in complex litigation matters and estate planning.  Mr. Solon assisted individuals with all their financial and estate needs.. Since April 2014, Mr. Solon became an Of Counsel to the LaRocca firm in a position to assist others with their legal needs.  He uses his personal experiences as well as his legal training to provide personal care to all his clients.  Moreover, Mr. Solon has built a network of experienced professionals at his disposal.. Mr. Solon spends his free time with his wife and two daughters.  He participates in various community service projects, heads a few charitable events, participates in sports and is known to frequent Rutgers football games.