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Westfield, New Jersey
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Elizabeth Engert Manzo
Westfield: 908-233-6800
emanzo@lindabury.com Elizabeth Engert Manzo is a partner of the firm of Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. She has been an attorney with Lindabury since 1997. She concentrates her practice in elder law, wills, trust and estate planning, estate litigation, ERISA and employee benefits law. Elizabeth frequently lectures to civic associations and community groups on elder law, long term care planning, Medicaid eligibility / government benefits planning and employee benefits. She has frequently presented at the Annual Conference for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and the Taft-Hartley Trustee Seminar sponsored by the United Association and the Mechanical Contractors Association of New Jersey, Inc. She has also lectured before a number of hospitals and physicians groups, for Professional Development/CME credit, and is an annual presenter for Elder Law Committee of the Union County Bar Association. In the area of employee benefits, Elizabeth acts as legal counsel to the trustees for collectively bargained multiemployer ("Taft-Hartley") benefit funds; primarily in the construction trades. In this capacity, Ms. Manzo has advised on matters involving ERISA compliance, fiduciary responsibility, legal standards for plan design, participation, benefit accrual, vesting, and funding as well as other implementation and administration issues impacting the tax qualified status of such plans. Ms. Manzo also serves by appointment from a national trade association as independent professional trustee, on the side of management, on several large multiemployer trust funds. Elizabeth also has experience in both the single and multiemployer plan arena, with U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service investigation and compliance issues, 401(K) plan mergers, prohibited transactions, and reporting and disclosure requirements. As an elder law attorney, Elizabeth represents older or disabled persons and their representatives in financing long-term medical care, nursing home issues, qualifying for SSI, Medicaid and other public benefits, special needs trusts planning, and trust administration. She also advises on estate planning, estate and gift taxation, will contests and estate litigation, probate and estate administration as well as guardianship and conservatorship issues. Elizabeth serves as co-chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Union County Bar Association and as a member of the Elder Law and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sections of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Elizabeth received a B.A. from Rutgers College in New Jersey where she graduated as a Henry Rutgers Scholar with high honors. She received a Juris Doctorate degree, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law where she was a contributor to The Seton Hall Legislative Law Journal and a legislative intern to the Office of the Governor’s Counsel. Elizabeth is a graduate of the Richard J. Hughes American Inns of Court. She was recently recognized by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of the top “40 Under 40” lawyers in the State of New Jersey for 2009. Bar Admissions: New Jersey, 1997 U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1997 Memberships: National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans American Bar Association: Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, Committee on Special Needs Trusts, Medicaid and Long Term Care New Jersey State Bar Association: Elder Law and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Sections Union County Bar Association: Elder Law Section Education: Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1997 Rutgers College, B.A., with high honors, 1994
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