Mary Susan Leahy
Attorney
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.
Department
Trusts and Estates
Corporate
Areas of Practice
- Business Succession Planning
- Charitable Foundations and Tax Exempt Organizations
- Estate Administration
- Estate and Tax Planning
- Generational real estate transfers
- Professional fiduciary and trustee services
- Real estate conservation and preservation
Representative Clients & Work
Mary Susan represents individuals, business owners, families with vacation properties; trustees and other fiduciaries; charitable foundations and other tax-exempt organizations; conservationists and preservationists
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
Professional & Association Memberships
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; Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC); Chair of the New Hampshire Probate Court's Uniform Trust Code Committee; New Hampshire Women's Bar Association
Recognition
- AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Cited in The Best Lawyers in America 2005-2006 for trusts and estates, corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities law
- 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
Community Involvement
- Trustee, Strawbery Banke Museum
- Trustee and Chair, Concord 20/20
- Trustee and President, New Hampshire Supreme Court Historical Society
- Trustee, New Hampshire Bar Foundation
Career
- Boston University School of Law, J.D. 1970
- Mount Holyoke College, A.B. 1966
Recent Publications and Lectures
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