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

Susan S. Brown is a Founding Partner at Glassman & Brown, LLP in White Plains, NY.

PROFESSIONAL
SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS

New York Bar Association: Practical Skills, Probate and Administration of Trusts; Settling an EstateBasic 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.