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Emilee K. Lawson Hatch

4.8
16 reviews

121 E. Seneca St., 3rd Fl., Ithaca, NY

Estate and Gift Taxation, Trusts and Estates, Business Law and 4 more

About Emilee K. Lawson Hatch

Emilee Lawson Hatch is an Attorney at Bousquet Holstein, PLLC. She concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, and estate and gift taxation. Emilee is a frequent lecturer and previous author of the Syracuse Law Review's Survey of New York Law. She has been named a New York Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Emilee was honored with the Onondaga County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyer Project Distinguished Service Pro Bono Award, as well as the 2015 NYSBA President’s Pro Bono Service Award for the 5th Judicial District.

Emilee is an advocate for lifelong learning. She believes in providing opportunities for all people to have access to education and legal services. Emilee demonstrates her commitment to the CNY community through her work with many local charitable organizations. She also serves as a volunteer at the Crouse & Upstate Hospital Legal Clinic, Surrogate's Court Legal Clinic, Vera House Legal Clinic, and the "Say Yes to Education" Legal Clinics.

She is a native of the Rocky Mountains, where she grew up in Evergreen, Colorado. After she earned her Bachelor’s degree, she traveled to New York where she received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 2008. Following law school, she obtained an LL.M. in Estate Planning from the University Of Miami School Of Law. Emilee is admitted to practice law in New York, Massachusetts, and is awaiting admission in Colorado.

 

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Elder Law
Posted by Alan R
June 13, 2024
Hired Attorney Emilee K. Lawson Hatch

No one knows more about her area of the law. Emilee is the go-to person in central New York. If you have an elderly loved-one or you are an elderly loved-one, you want Emilee in your corner. She will take care of you like you are her own mother or father. She really listened to our needs and helped us figure out the best plan for our end of life decisions. We would trust her to help anyone we cared about.

 
Wills and Probate
Posted by anonymous
November 04, 2025
Hired Attorney Emilee K. Lawson Hatch

I retained Emilee to help me deal with my mother's estate. However, she largely ceased working on the estate after a few months, leaving me to deal almost entirely with her paralegal, Peg. Peg made a lot of mistakes in the preparation of legal documents, from letters to financial institutions, to tax forms. As the attorney I retained, Emilee should have supervised Peg and verified the accuracy of her work, but this did not occur. Instead, as the client, it fell to me to recognize and correct Peg's multiple errors, many of which would have had very serious financial consequences if I had not caught them. When I objected to the repeated errors in Peg's legal work and asked that Emilee take a more active role, she responded by terminating her representation. She told me that no other attorney at the firm was available to take her place. However, I later learned from a managing partner that Emilee had actually advised against any attorney at the firm working with me.

 
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Areas of Law

  • Taxation 1
    • Estate and Gift Taxation
  • Trusts and Estates
  • Business Law
  • Elder Law
  • Other 3
    • Wills
    • Elder Abuse
    • Probate

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    2009, Massachusetts
    2009, New York
    Memberships
    New York State Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Elder Law
    Trusts and Estates)
    Onondaga County Bar Association
    Central New York Women's Bar Association
    Estate Planning Council of Central New York
    Massachusetts Bar Association
    William Herbert Johnson Bar Association of CNY
  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of Miami School of Law
    Class of 2009
    LL.M.
    Tax and Estate Planning

    Syracuse University College of Law
    Class of 2008
    J.D.

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121 E. Seneca St., 3rd Fl.Ithaca, NY U.S.A.

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