PRACTICES
Private Clients
CONTACT
Four Gateway Center
100 Mulberry Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Tel. 973.639.6976
Fax. 973.297.3956
gbrew@mccarter.com
EDUCATION
 J.D., Rutgers University School of Law - Newark, 1988, Managing Research Editor, Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal B.A., Rutgers University, 1984 Law Clerk, Hon. Nicholas Scalera, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New Jersey
New York
MEMBERSHIPS AND
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES American Bar Association, Section on Real Property & Probate (Group Vice Chair, Estate and Fiduciary Litigation, Ethics and Malpractice Group)
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Member, Fiduciary Litigation Committee)
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Mr. Brew represents clients in disputed matters involving estates, trusts, fiduciaries, family issues, and closely held family businesses. Drawing on his experience in those litigated matters, he also counsels fiduciary clients in complex estate administrations to avoid disputes and handles estate planning and administration matters. Mr. Brew seeks to achieve the desired result in a cost-effective manner, whether through litigation in the probate or chancery courts, or various alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
He has handled numerous litigated and non-litigated family disputes in New Jersey and New York involving estates, trusts and guardianships, including estates as large as a billion dollars. He has represented both beneficiaries and corporate and individual fiduciaries (executors, trustee or guardians) in matters involving estate and trust administrations. Mr. Brew has participated extensively in the resolution of these disputes through mediation or other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and has been appointed by courts to mediate such disputes.
Mr. Brew has also represented numerous clients in the often complex appeals relating to estates, trusts and fiduciaries, as well as challenges to state agency actions, such as matters involving the Department of Banking and Insurance. His appellate work (including applications for stays or other emergency relief) has resulted in a significant number of reported appellate decisions.
Mr. Brew devotes substantial time to advancing legal issues and legal education. He is the author of the New Jersey Probate Probate Procedures Manual -- Navigating a New Jersey Estate Administration (NJ ICLE 2008). He is a contributing editor to The New Jersey Estate Litigation Manual (authored by Steven K. Mignogna, Esq., NJ ICLE 2006) and The New Jersey Estate Planning Manual (authored by Glenn A. Henkel, Esq., NJ ICLE 2007). He is an adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School (teaching New Jersey Estate Administration). He is recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyer for 2006-2010 editions (he was selected one of the Top 100 lawyers in New Jersey for 2010). He is also listed in the 2007-2010 issues of Best Lawyers in America.
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PUBLICATIONS
SPEAKING
Speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Regional ACTEC Conference regarding "Current Tax and Non-Tax Issues in New Jersey Estate Administration and the Role of Revocable Trusts in New Jersey Estate Planning and Administration," September 11, 2009.
Speaker on "New Jersey Trust Planning and Administration Issues" at the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Northeast Regional Meeting, September 12, 2009.
Speaker at the American Banker's Association telephone briefing called "Working with Trust Professionals: The Views of Experts and Beneficiaries," attend by some 800 or more bankers in trust and fiduciary departments around the country, May 7, 2009.
Speaker at Annual Joint Meeting of the ABA Section on Real Property, Trust and Estate Law and the ABA Section of Taxation. Gerard spoke on "Navigating the Trustee's Duty of Disclosure under the Uniform Trust Code" and "Conflicting Duties of Trustees, Officers and Directors with Respect to the Management of Closely-Held Business Entities," September 2008.
Speaker at the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Mid-Altantic Regional Meeting captioned: "Who Moved my Trust -- When, Whether and How to Move a Trust from State to State," October 5, 2007.
"Protecting Your Own Assets -- Avoiding and Defending Ethics and Malpractice Claims in the Estate and Trust Matters" for the American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law annual joint meeting with the Section on Taxation, September 29, 2007.
Co-Speaker with Sharon Klein, Esq., Vice President and Counsel at Fiduciary Trust Company International at the BNA/Tax Management Annual Editorial Board Program regarding "Disaster Management and Recovery Issues in Estate and Trust Administration" in New York City, September 20, 2007.
IN THE MEDIA
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