Mount Sinai Estate Planning Lawyers

I practice Tax litigation litigating Federal tax cases in the Tax Court, Federal Court and NYS tax matters.

Worked for the Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel's Office in New York for 14 years litigating tax cases in Tax Court; and also worked in the IRS Criminal Division of Chief Counsel's Office. After leaving the Chief Counsel's Office, I have been in private practice.

Education: Graduated Washington University, St. Louis, business school and law school. Graduated NYU Tax Program and received an LLM in Taxation.

Lissett Ferreira is a partner and Chair of the Elder Law & Special Needs and Family & Divorce Law practice groups at Meenan & Associates, LLC, a boutique civil litigation law firm. Lissett’s main focus is helping people manage and plan for major life changes, including divorce, disability and death. Her primary practice areas are guardianships; estate, long-term care and special needs planning; trusts and estates; Medicaid and supplemental need trusts; divorce and family law issues; and pre- and post-nuptial agreements. Lissett entered private practice in 2013, after nearly a decade of public service as a principal court attorney...

I have been actively practicing law for the past 40 plus years and have handled numerous matters in Estates, Trusts and Probate field in Surrogates Court as well as Guardianship and Elder Law matters in Supreme Court. I am a member of both the New York City Bar and New York State Bar Trusts/Estates Committee and the Elder Law Committee (Co-Chairman of the Ethics Committee) I am also on the Referral Attorney Panel in the area of Trusts/Estates and Elder Law for the New York City Bar Association, New York State Bar...