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ELLEN K WADE is a
graduate of Mount Holyoke College (A.B.), University of Massachusetts
(M.A.) and Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.). Also a
licensed attorney in Texas, she has practiced law in Massachusetts for
over twenty-five years. Immediately prior to founding Wade & Horowitz
LLC she was of counsel to the Boston firm of Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak
and Cohen. She is a founding co-chair of both the Massachusetts Women’s
Bar Association’s Elder Law Project and the Estate Planning Practice
Section of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association; she is a
member of the Policy Committee of the LGBT Aging Project, of the
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, of the Massachusetts Bar
Association, and of the National Lawyers Guild; and she is a past board
member of the ACLU of Massachusetts. She, along with Attorney Gail
Horowitz, received the Women’s Bar Association’s Pro Bono Award in 2001
in recognition of their pro bono work with elders. Also a plaintiff in
the Massachusetts same sex marriage case and in the second-parent
adoption case, she was honored with the Massachusetts Bar Association’s
2004 Community Service Award. She has been named a Massachusetts Super
Lawyer each year since 2005 in Estate Planning & Elder Law.
Attorney Wade concentrates her practice
in the areas of complex estate and gift tax planning, probate and elder
law. She lectures on various topics, among them estate and gift tax
planning for all persons, as well as the special planning issues
confronted by single persons, unmarried couples, and same-sex married
couples. She has addressed a wide range of audiences, including the
Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education,
Inc., the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, PridePlanners,
the National Academy of Elder Lawyers (both the national organization
and the Massachusetts chapter), the Brookline Senior Center and various
other non-profit organizations.
Email: wade@wadehorowitz.com
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