Burns of Ruberto, Israel & Weiner elected as a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

According to Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, Lisa Weinstein Burns, co-chair of the firm's trusts & estates group, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). ACTEC is a professional organization of 2,600 trust and estate lawyers that recognizes those practitioners who have established outstanding reputations among their peers by demonstrating a high level of skill, integrity, and comprehensive knowledge in the field of trusts and estates, as well as having made a substantial contribution to the profession through lecturing, writing and leadership in trusts and estates organizations. Membership is by nomination only. Burns joins an elite group of only 88 attorneys in Mass. who have received this honor. For more than 19 years, Burns has concentrated her practice in the areas of sophisticated tax planning, multi-generational wealth transfers, business succession planning, estate planning and estate administration. Her work with clients includes drafting a variety of estate planning documents including wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable insurance and generation-skipping trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, charitable trusts, durable powers of attorney, and healthcare proxies. Lisa works with business owners, executives, and other high net worth individuals and families, as well as with executors and fiduciaries for estate and trust administration matters.