Robert W. Spencer

Robert W. Spencer was educated at Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) and Columbia University Law School (as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). He has been practicing law for then 40 years, concentrating in estate planning, elder law, real estate, business transactions, tax and bankruptcy law. He is Of Counsel to the Firm.

Mr. Spencer initially was employed as a tax associate by Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. He was then employed as a corporate associate by Stryker, Tams & Dill; as Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Dictaphone Corporation; as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Olivetti Corporation; and as a partner in several law firms located in Tarrytown, New York.

Among his many community activities he has served on the are Board of Trustees of the Union Free School District of the Tarrytowns (2 years as President and 2 years as Vice President); the Board of Directors of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center; Secretary-Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Kendal-on-Hudson; the Board of Directors of the Family YMCA of the Tarrytowns (recipient of the Patterson Award for distinguished service); the Supervisory Committee of Unistar Federal Credit Union; Board of Directors of the Tarrytown Volunteer Ambulance Corps; the Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns (recipient of the Paul Harris Award for service); Acting Village Justice of the Village of Tarrytown (8 years) and President of the Sleepy Hollow Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Spencer and his wife, Carolyn, were honored by the Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns as Citizens of the Year for their many years of community service.