Nimetz and Streng in the News

05/27/2025

McCarthy Fingar’s lawyers are often involved in the most complex and most significant cases in New York. Having won a significant case in the New York Court of Appeals, Carlson v. Colangelo, two of our lawyers, Irma K. Nimetz and Frank W. Streng, who Co-Chair our Estate & Trust Litigation group, authored an article for The New York Law Journal. The article, entitled, “Court Rules Terrorem Clauses Are Enforceable but Strictly Construed,” analyses the Court of Appeals Opinion in Carlson, emphasizing that “attorneys must exercise caution in representing clients on potential challenges to trust agreements that contain an in terrorem clause.”