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Trust & Estates
Overview
With one of the largest and most sophisticated trusts and estates practices in the country, Day Pitney's Trusts and Estates practice group provides the full range of services needed by individuals and their families as well as fiduciaries. The breadth and scope of our services to individuals and families are among the most comprehensive in the country. These services include estate and transfer tax planning, business succession planning, administration of decedents' estates, administration of trusts and guardianships, conservatorships, and other matters relating to incapacity.
Day Pitney trusts and estates attorneys have extensive experience helping generations of families plan for the future. They provide clients with sophisticated domestic and international estate planning and estate settlement techniques to protect clients' assets during their lifetimes as well as to ensure that their property passes according to their wishes. As the most populous generation continues to age, the Day Pitney T&E attorneys stay abreast of all trusts and estates issues as these issues are being identified, redefined and challenged.
The Day Pitney Difference
Many large law firms have private client practices that function mainly as a service practice. Their depth of experience is limited. Day Pitney has more than 70 lawyers who assist individuals and families with trusts and estates matters full time. Our lawyers are supported by a staff of more than 30 trusts and estates paralegals. Together, we have literally hundreds of years of experience advising individuals and their families, as well as individual and professional fiduciaries, with respect to the full range of trusts and estates matters.
The lawyers in our Trusts and Estates practice group consider themselves part of a team that collaborates to produce the best, most practical results for our clients. Our lawyers regularly consult with one another to take advantage of our collective experience to provide the benefits of the group's knowledge to address any particular situation.
The partners and counsel in our group have been practicing in our field for an average of more than 20 years. When clients consult with a Day Pitney trusts and estates lawyer, they receive the benefit of not only that lawyer's knowledge and experience but also the benefit of a collective group effort over many years to provide cutting-edge yet practical and results-oriented solutions to legal issues.
The Day Pitney Trusts and Estates practice group is also different in that it works in collaboration with all the firm's lawyers to provide whatever services are needed for our clients. For example, our corporate, employment, real estate, trial and environmental lawyers regularly provide advice with respect to legal issues relating to our clients and their business interests. When a client retains Day Pitney to advise on a matter encompassed by our practice, they can be assured that all the resources of the firm will be available to provide whatever assistance is needed for issues that arise in the current engagement or in the future.
Our attorneys are highly recognized in their field. Our team includes 15 attorneys who are elected fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a group of peer-elected trusts and estates attorneys across the United States and abroad with more than 10 years of experience in the active practice of probate and trust law or estate planning.
The Day Pitney Trusts and Estates and Family Offices practices and attorneys have been recognized locally and nationally by publications including; Chambers High Net Worth (HNW) Guide, U.S. News & World Report, and Best Lawyers®.
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News & Insights
Thought Leadership
- Generations Newsletter - Winter 2024, December 30, 2024
- Estate Planning Update - Winter 2024, December 30, 2024
- Private Clients and the New Corporate Transparency Act: Is Your LLC Required to File by January 1, 2025?, November 22, 2024
- Tradition vs. Technology: Original Paper Wills Are Still Required, November 7, 2024
- The Long Arc of Attribution, October 21, 2024
Events
- Day Pitney Hosts Thought-Provoking Palm Beach Family Office Forum, May 19, 2023
- "Wills for Veterans," Day Pitney, MA Ch. of the Federal Bar Assoc., and MA Dept. of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., November 10, 2022
- Day Pitney's Palm Beach Family Office Forum 2020 Update, April 28-29, 2020
- "Estate Planning Basics," Wills, Trusts and Estates Forum, March 12, 2020
- Investing in Art, October 17, 2018
News
- Dina Kapur Sanna Honored in Law.com's 2025 Private Client Global Elite Directory, January 28, 2025
- Noelle (Lussier) Maffeo Appointed to Board of Massachusetts Guardianship Association, January 21, 2025
- Day Pitney Secures Three Awards at the 2025 Family Wealth Report Miami, Latin America, and Caribbean Awards, January 17, 2025
- Emma K. Pletenycky Receives 2025 New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section Rising Star Fellowship, January 16, 2025
- Day Pitney Names New Chairs of Fiduciary and Probate Litigation Practice Group, November 21, 2024
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Named "Best Law Firm – Estates and Trusts" by Private Asset Management, 2024 Named "Law Firm of the Year," in the "Best Law Firms" Trusts and Estates Law category by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®, 2021
Named a Finalist for "Legal Team of the Year," by Family Wealth Report, 2021
Shortlisted for "Best Law Firm - Estates and Trusts" by Private Asset Management Awards, 2021
Shortlisted for "USA Private Client Team of the Year – East Coast," by Chambers HNW (Chambers & Partners), 2020
Named "Best Law Firm – Estates and Trusts" by Private Asset Management, 2020
Shortlisted for "Legal Team of the Year," by Family Wealth Report, 2019
Named "Law Firm of the Year" by Family Wealth Report, 2017 Finalist in "Accounting, CPA or Law Firms Serving Family Offices" category for Family Wealth Alliance Best in the Industry Awards, 2018
Shortlisted in two categories, "Best Private Client Law Firm" and "Best Trusts and Estates Division," by Private Asset Management (PAM), 2018
Shortlisted in two categories, "Legal Team of the Year" and "Family Wealth Counseling," by Family Wealth Report, 2018
Named a Family Office "Industry Awards" Finalist by Wealth Management
Ranked as "Highly Commended" in categories for "Best Private Client Law Firm" by Private Asset Management (PAM), 2017, 2019
Shortlisted for "Law Firm of the Year" by Family Wealth Report, 2016 Ranked Nationwide, and Band 1 in Private Wealth Law, CT and MA, by Chambers HNW (Chambers & Partners), 2016-2020
Ranked Band 1 in Wealth Management, Nationwide, by Chambers USA (Chambers & Partners), 2010-2016
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