About Sandra
I focus on all phases of estate planning and trusts and estates administration, including the drafting of wills and various trusts, with an emphasis on complex gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax issues.
I am experienced in establishing and administering private foundations, in representing individual and corporate clients in corporate and tax matters, and in developing planned giving programs for non-for-profit organizations.
Since I am bilingual, I frequently lecture and write on various estate planning topics in English and Spanish.
I previously worked at the Office of the Public Administrator of Kings County as the Deputy Public Administrator (administering the estates of people who die without a will), at Morea Schwartz LLP as a Trusts and Estates/Tax Associate, at Matthew Bender & Co. (LexisNexis) as an Estate Planning/Tax Editor, at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP as an International Tax Associate, and at the AIDS Law Clinic of the Harvard Law School (The Hale & Dorr Legal Clinic) as a trusts and estates legal intern.
I am a member of the New York State and Massachusetts State bars; Hispanic Bar Association; Puerto Rican Bar Association; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and New York State Bar Trusts and Estates Section.
Bar Admissions
New York (2004)
U.S. Tax Court (2003)
Massachusetts (1999)
Education
New York University School of Law, New York, New York (LL.M. in Tax, 2001)
Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.D., 1999)
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (B.B.A., 1993)
Languages
SPANISH (Hablo Español)
