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Joseph M.
Landolfi, Jr.

Member

Office 561.609.3845
Email jlandolfi@coleschotz.com
Virginia Fink |Legal Practice Assistant
561.609.3844
vfink@coleschotz.com
Virginia Fink |Legal Practice Assistant
561.609.3844
vfink@coleschotz.com
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Joseph M. Landolfi, Jr. is a South Florida-based corporate and trusts and estates attorney with more than 25 years of experience advising high net worth individuals, families, and business owners on sophisticated estate planning, asset protection, and tax strategies.

 

 

Experience

Estate Planning & Wealth Preservation

Joseph counsels high net worth individuals and families in connection with complex estate planning, wealth preservation, and succession planning matters. His practice focuses on implementing sophisticated strategies designed to preserve generational wealth, minimize estate, gift, and income tax exposure, and protect personal and business assets from creditor claims.
Joseph regularly prepares and advises clients regarding wills, revocable trusts, life insurance trusts, gift trusts, advanced directives, charitable planning vehicles, private foundations, estate freeze transactions, and deferred and split-interest gifting arrangements. He also assists clients with probate and trust administration matters.

Asset Protection Planning

Joseph has extensive experience designing and implementing domestic and international asset protection structures for individuals, families, and business owners. His work includes the formation and restructuring of corporate entities, domestic and foreign trust planning, equity stripping arrangements, private annuities, and strategic utilization of Florida statutory creditor exemptions.

Corporate & Transactional Matters

In addition to his trusts and estates practice, Joseph advises businesses and entrepreneurs on a broad range of transactional and tax matters. He counsels clients regarding entity selection and structuring, shareholder and partnership agreements, joint ventures, financing transactions, business succession planning, deferred compensation arrangements, and the purchase and sale of businesses.

 

Thought Leadership

Joseph serves as an Adjunct Professor at St. Thomas University School of Law, where he teaches Estate Planning.

 

Honors & Awards

Joseph has been recognized as one of Florida’s Super Lawyers for the past ten years, an honor based on peer recognition and professional achievement as independently evaluated by Thomson Reuters.

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Areas of Practice

Corporate Transactions

Tax, Trusts & Estates 

Estate and Income Tax Planning Estate and Trust Administration Business Succession Planning  Corporate Tax & Reorganization

Education

Boston University School of Law, LL.M
Fairleigh Dickinson University, M.S.
Villanova University, B.A.
Saint Thomas University School of Law, J.D.

Bar & Court Admissions

Florida

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    Tax Attorney Joseph M. Landolfi, Jr. Joins Cole Schotz as Member

    May 27, 2026 | Global Legal Chronicle

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    Tax Attorney Joseph M. Landolfi, Jr. Joins Cole Schotz as Member

    May 27, 2026 | Global Legal Chronicle
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