Founder, Of Counsel
SUSAN S. BROWN is a co-founder of the law firm of Glassman & Brown, LLP and as of October 2021, she is “Of Counsel” to the firm. Ms. Brown graduated from Bucknell University in 1978 and received her law degree from Pace University School of Law in 1987, where she was a member and editor of the Pace Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in New York. Ms. Brown is a member of the Elder Law and Trusts and Estates sections of the New York State Bar Association. She is a member of the Board and past President of the Westchester Women’s Bar Association Foundation. Ms. Brown has taught courses in estate administration, will drafting, advanced estate planning, retirement asset planning, contested guardianships, and elder law ethics for the New York State Bar Association, Westchester County Bar Association, Westchester Women’s Bar Association, Pace University School of Law Continuing Legal Education, and the National Business Institute. She has lectured on the topic of US international estate taxes before the Association of American Wives of Europeans in Paris, France.
Ms. Brown is experienced in sophisticated estate planning, legal guardianship and elder law, estate litigation and estate and trust administration, special needs and long-term care planning. She has served as Court Evaluator, Guardian and Counsel to the AIP in numerous complicated and litigated adult Guardianship proceedings under Article 81 of the New York Mental Hygiene Law.
Ms. Brown is trained in Mediation and Supported Decision-Making Facilitation, and she is a past participant in the Supported Decision Making New York (“SDMNY”) attorney pilot that promoted newly enacted Mental Hygiene Law Article 82.01, Supported Decision Making, as a less restrictive alternative to guardianship for intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals.