About
I were in personal practice solely in special desires law, elder law, and property planning for 27 years. I have taught regulation college on the JD and LLM degree in view that 2005, and these days stepped down as a complete-time Professor and Director of the Graduate Program (LL.M.) in Elder Law and Estate Planning at Western New England University School of Law to return to complete-time private exercise as a partner at Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts, PC (“SNLG”). I continue to teach in the LLM application at Western New England as an Adjunct Professor.
Let me inform you more about Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts (SNLG). Most web sites, which include SuperLawyers, don't have any class for unique wishes, or extra accurately, Special Needs Advocacy and Planning, which better than any other brief phrase describes what SNLG does.
Special needs households contain approximately seventy five% of SNLG customers. When we talk approximately Special Needs, we are usually relating to circle of relatives individuals who've had a few sort of disability or mission because birth or perhaps from younger maturity, instead of honestly growing older into disabilities.
Disabilities don t discriminate: SNLG s Special Needs families come in all kinds, from the rich to the financially suffering.
The rest of the SNLG caseload is normally complicated elder regulation conditions. A high percent of SNLG Special Needs families additionally have both number one or secondary elder law problems inside the mix, and pretty much all SNLG Special Needs households have estate planning desires – indeed, greater extensive property making plans desires than many different clients.
The Founder of the Firm, Lawyer Annette M. Hines, and I actually have walked the stroll. Between us we've raised a 27 year antique daughter who turned into debilitatingly ill with continual Lyme disorder for six years, a daughter who became severely disabled when you consider that delivery who surpassed away on the age of 17 in 2013, and a “typical” 18 year old.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
Costs
Certificates
National Elder Law Foundation
Languages
- English
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Senior Counsel
Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts, PC
2018 - Adjunct Professor for Graduate Program (LL.M.) in Elder Law & Estate Planning
Western New England University School of Law
2018 - Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Elder Law and Estate Planning
Western New England University School of Law
2016 - Senior Counsel
Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts, PC
2013 - Adjunct Professor
Northeastern University School of Law
2012 - Adjunct Professor for Graduate Program (LL.M.) in Elder Law & Estate Planning
Western New England University School of Law
2005 - Of Counsel
Oppenheim & Cole, LLC
2010 - Partner
Smith Worthington, LLC
2007 - Lawyer
Mark W. Worthington, Counsellor at Law
1992
Educations

Graduation year: 2004

Graduation year: 1991

Graduation year: 1980