- Corporate Business Law
- Estate Planning and Trust and Estate Administration
- Probate Litigation
- Taxation
Mary Susan is a versatile estate planning and trust attorney. In addition to advising on personal estate and tax planning issues, she also advises clients on business succession planning, having spent many years as a transactional business lawyer. Drawing on her experience as a real estate attorney, she counsels families on generational planning, such as involving ownership of lakefront and other vacation properties. She serves as a professional trustee of many private trusts and counsels charitable foundations and other tax exempt organizations.
Susan received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
Areas of Focus
Admissions
- New Hampshire State Courts
- Maine State Courts
- United States Supreme Court
- United States First Circuit Court of Appeals
- Federal District Court for the District of New Hampshire
- United States Tax Court
- Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
Involvement
- New Hampshire Bar Association and its Sections of Elder Law and Real Property and Probate
- Maine Bar Association, American Bar Association and its Sections of Taxation and Real Property and Probate
- New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association
- Constitutionally Speaking, Treasurer
- New Hampshire Institute for Civics Education, Founder and Chair
- Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, Trustee
- Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Partners for Community Wellness, Executive Committee Member
Recognitions
Awards
- Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law, Trusts & Estates Law), 1997 – present
- New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association’s Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award
- Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Award
- Merrimack County Bar Association Lawyer of the Year Award
- New Hampshire’s Most Powerful Women Award