William P. LaPiana, Esq.

New York Law School

William P. LaPiana is an Associate Dean at New York Law School.  He has over thirty years of teaching in which four years were spent at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.  Professor LaPiana joined the faculty at New York Law School in 1987. In 1993, he was named the Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of the Law of Wills, Trusts and Estates.

He believes that one of the best ways to analyze a society is to examine how its legal system deals with people’s most personal concerns.

Professor LaPiana also has been active with the trusts and estates sections of both the New York State and the American Bar Associations and is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, serving on its Committees on State Laws and Legal Education.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Professor LaPiana, who is originally from suburban Buffalo, spent four years as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

Professor LaPiana holds both a Ph.D. in History and a J.D. from Harvard, where he also received his B.A. and an M.A.