Knox joins Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone

According to Lew Meltzer, managing partner of Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP, Christine Knox has joined as an associate. Knox is the third experienced trusts and estates practitioner the firm has added in the last three months in response to the increased demand for its expertise in trusts and estates practice. "Our reputation for trusts & estates work and the current economic environment have elicited a surge of trusts and estates business for the firm. We've been actively recruiting outstanding attorneys from New York City and Long Island for our trusts and estates and litigation departments," said Meltzer. "Christine Knox has an accomplished record earned in both law practice and in the banking industry. She is a welcome addition to our team." Knox comes to Meltzer Lippe from Humes & Wagner, LLP, a Locust Valley, New York firm where she had served as trusts and estates associate, conducting estate administration and estate planning for high net worth individuals. Prior to that, she was a senior trust administrator for Investors Bank and Trust Company in Boston, where she oversaw daily activity for numerous trusts and high profile custody client relationships. A cum laude dean's list graduate of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Knox was a member of and served on the Editorial Board for the Suffolk Transnational Law Review. At Middlebury College, where she earned a bachelor of arts in Art History and English, Knox was co-captain of her varsity volleyball team. She is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts and is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association.