Lorrie B. Franco has a broad range of experience in the field of estates and trusts, with a focus on estate and tax planning, drafting of wills and drafting and implementation of trusts, including insurance, revocable and qualified personal residence trusts.

Having practiced law since 1986, she administers estates of all sizes, including substantial, complex estates. Ms. Franco is knowledgeable in gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxation, business succession, marital agreements, elder law, the legal aspects of health care and disability, and the uses of sophisticated tax savings vehicles and charitable giving, and she represents clients in various proceedings in the Surrogate's Court and before the Internal Revenue Service. Her clients appreciate her devotion to their needs and the caring and thoughtful approach she brings to their concerns.

A summa cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she earned her BA in 1982 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, she obtained her JD in 1985 from Fordham University Law School. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association, where she is a member of the Estates and Trusts Section.