PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATION
BAR ADMISSIONS
BAR POSITIONS
Glassman & Brown, LLP
99 Court Street, White Plains, NY
Founding Partner, 1998
Concentrating in Trusts, Estates, Guardianship & Disability Planning including international estate planning; Elder and Guardianship law and related litigation.
Connecticut; New York; U.S. Supreme Court.
Westchester Women’s Bar Association: Former Vice President, Former Co-Chair, Trusts & Estates Committee. President Westchester Women’s Bar Association Foundation
PROFESSIONAL
SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
New York Bar Association: Practical Skills, Probate and Administration of Trusts; Settling an Estate; Basic Probate and Administration of Estates; Advanced Estate Planning; Trust Planning & Taxation; Advanced Elderlaw.
Westchester County Bar Association: Elder Law Ethics; Contested Guardianships.
Westchester Women’s Bar Association: Supplemental Needs Trusts; Estate Tax Repeal: Retirement Asset Planning.
Pace University School of Law, Continuing Legal Education:
Basics of Drafting Wills & Living Trusts; Elderlaw Ethics.
National Business Institute, Inc.: Administration of the Estate
in New York; Estate Planning & Probate in New York.
Westchester County Sr. Law Day: Tax Update; Wills and Will Substitutes.
AAWE (Association of American Wives of Europeans): (Paris, France) US International Estate Planning & Taxation.
T: 914-686-0108
F: 914-288-9291
HONORS
Westchester County Volunteer of the Year Finalist
YWCA Salute to Women Honoree, 1997, as first female partner of McCarthy, Fingar L.L.P.
1984
EDUCATION
Pace University School of Law, White Plains, N.Y.
J.D., Ranking Scholar, Merit Scholarship
Class Rank: 3 of 130
American Jurisprudence Award for Federal Tax I
Prentice-Hall Award for Excellence in Federal Income Tax I
Casenote & Comment Editor, Pace Law Review
1987
Adelphi University Legal Assistant Program, Garden City, N.Y. Honors Graduate
1978
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
B.S. Business Administration
1978
COMMUNITY &
PRO BONO
SERVICES
Ecumenical Emergency Food Pantry of White Plains Coordinator
1982 – 1984
Rye Youth Soccer Vice President & Registrar
1992 – 1995
Rye Youth Council Board Member, Vice President
1996 – 2001
Rye Ecumenical Youth Ministry Board member
1997 – 2001
Rye High School Safe Rides Adult Coordinator
1998 – 2001
Port Chester-Rye-Rye Brook Volunteer Ambulance Board
2003 – 2006
Westchester County Sr. Law Day Presenter
2000 – 2006
Pace Women’s Justice Center Elder law Presenter
various
PEO (Scholarships for Women) Chapter President & Secretary
various
City of Rye, NY Zoning Board of Appeals
2005 – 2006
2013 – present
Eglise Anglican, Fontainebleau Church Council
2010 – 2011
Children’s Aid Society, Trustee
2012 – present
Hudson Valley Legal Services 63 hours / pro bono T&E litigation
2015, 2016
SPECIALITIES &
INTERESTS
Conversational in French and a World Traveler. I love to cook the produce from my husband’s garden and arrange his fresh cut flowers!
Ms. Brown currently serves as Of Counsel to the Firm.