Lisa Weinstein Burns is a shareholder of the firm and Co-Chair of the Trusts & Estates Group.  For more than 15 years, Ms. Burns has concentrated her practice in the areas of tax planning, multi-generational wealth transfers business succession planning, estate planning and estate administration.

Her work with clients includes drafting a variety of estate planning documents including wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable insurance and generation-skipping trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, charitable trusts, durable powers of attorney and healthcare proxies. Ms. Burns also assists executors and fiduciaries with estate and trust administration matters.

In the April 2008 issue of Women's Business Boston, Ms. Burns was named one of The Top 10 Lawyers by readers.  She has also been recognized by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics magazine as a "Super Lawyer Rising Star" in the area of Trusts and Estates. Ms. Burns is a lecturer for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) and has published several articles on various legal topics.

Ms. Burns' most recent association was as a Director with Rackemann, Sawyer, & Brewster, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ms. Burns has served as a member of the Nominating Committee for Shir Tikvah synagogue in Winchester, Massachusetts and has most recently been appointed to the Winchester Hospital Foundation Advisory Council. 

Associations and Organizations
Boston Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
Boston Estate Planning Council
~ Board of Directors (2011-2014)
~ Chair, Women's Initiative Committee 
Boston Probate and Estate Planning Forum 
~ Secretary
~ Steering Committee
University of Massachusetts Club
~ Founding Member
~ Board of Governors
~ Scholarship Fund Committee

Publications
Charitable Remainder Trusts, a Win-Win Tax Planning Technique, The Washington Lawyer, Nov./Dec. 1995
Just Say No Thanks, The Legal Times, May 20, 1996, an article regarding disclaimers;
The Golden Egg? Variable Universal Life Insurance, The Washington Lawyer, Nov./Dec. 1996
Gifting the House to Save the Home: Qualified Personal Residence Trusts, The Washington Lawyer, Nov./Dec. 1997.

In 2007, Ms. Burns was selected as an author for the book, Tax Law Client Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Understanding and Allocating Risks, Assessing Settlements and Negotiations, and Developing Deal Strategies, published by Aspatore Books as part of its "Inside the Minds" series. 

Additionally, Ms. Burns was awarded the national First Place Prize in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publications (ASCAP) Nathan Burkan competition, for her published Law Review Comment entitled Ancient Works, Modern Dilemmas: The Dead Sea Scrolls Copyright Case.

Bar and Court Admissions
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland

Education
Georgetown University
~ LL.M. in taxation, with distinction, 1998
American University
~ J.D., cum laude, 1995
~ Note and Comment Editor, American University Law Review
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
~ B.A., 1992