Edward M. Glickman

Senior Counsel

Recent News:

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys in its Best Lawyers in America 2025 Edition

Best Lawyers selected 242 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America.

Edward focuses his practice in the areas of tax and estate planning, closely held business succession planning, and the administration of estates and trusts. He also serves as an executor and trustee of numerous estates, trusts and charitable foundations.

Edward has served on the board of trustees and the executive committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, the board of trustees of the Jewish Campus Activities, and as chairman of the Overseas Missions Program of the Jewish Federation. He was granted the Edward N. Polisher Award in recognition of his distinguished service to both his profession and the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's endowment programs.

Edward’s undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, is from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, a member of Beta Gama Sigma (the Wharton School Honorary Society), and a member of the Order of the Coif.

News

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys in its Best Lawyers in America 2025 Edition

August 15, 2024

Best Lawyers selected 242 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America.

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys to its Best Lawyers in America 2024 Edition

August 17, 2023

Best Lawyers selected 232 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

More Than 200 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch

August 22, 2022

210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

More Than 205 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch By The Best Lawyers In America

August 19, 2021

Best Lawyers selected 210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

200 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch By The Best Lawyers In America

August 20, 2020

Best Lawyers selected 200 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

Publications

The Fiscal "Curb" [Private Client Services Alert]

January 03, 2013

For gift and estate tax purposes, the much feared "fiscal cliff" turned out to be more like a "fiscal curb" as Congress has now enacted legislation largely leaving in place the tax rules which have been in effect for the last two years.

End-of-Year Estate Planning [Private Client Services Alert!]

December 07, 2009

End-of-Year Estate Planning - Private Client Services Alert! - As we move quickly toward year end, consider the following for this year and for 2010"End-of-Year Estate Planning".

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.B., cum laude, 1963
  • University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School, B.S., magna cum laude, 1960

Awards & Honors

Best Lawyers in America, 2013-2025

  • Pennsylvania
  • American Bar Association
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Philadelphia Bar Association
  • Philadelphia Estate Planning Council