About Emilee K. Lawson Hatch

Emilee Lawson Hatch is an attorney focusing on trusts and estates law. Originally from the Rocky Mountains and raised in Evergreen, Colorado, she has made Central New York her home. Since settling here, Emilee has built a broad and sophisticated client base grounded in trust and clarity.

Emilee brings deep experience in trust and estates, and also elder law and personal-choice matters, ensuring that each client’s needs, values, and wishes are honored. She represents individuals and families of all kinds, honoring the unique dynamics, relationships, and personal values that shape each client’s planning needs.

She provides thoughtful support on trusts, wills, advance directives, powers of attorney, and other planning tools that protect both autonomy and dignity. With an approach that blends legal precision and human understanding, Emilee helps clients create plans that offer security, stability, and peace of mind. Her work includes guiding individuals and families through the legal and practical complexities of aging, long‑term care, and medical decision‑making.

As a former author of the Syracuse Law Review’s Trusts and Estates Survey of New York Law, Emilee remains closely attuned to developments in the law. She offers her knowledge and experience to her clients and a practical, solutions‑oriented mindset that makes complex issues feel manageable.

 

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Trusts and Estates
Posted by Margaret
April 18, 2026
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Working with Emilee Lawson Hatch has always been a wonderful experience. She handled my sister-in-law’s estate planning as well as acted as Executor. Emilee was an excellent listener and made sure the estate was properly taken care as per the stated wishes. Emilee hired firms to clean out her apartment and donate items to local charities. Emilee was very knowledgeable in knowing the best way to file long term care insurance claims, complete the paperwork needed to collect life insurance, and how to close IRA accounts. About three years later, Emilee worked to close my sister-in-law’s Living Trust and worked with a foreign attorney to settle foreign property ownership issues. That task took extreme patience and diligence and I compliment Emilee for her organization and communication skills in resolving the issue. Emilee is a kind and caring person who loves her work and her clients.

 
Elder Law
Posted by Alan R
June 13, 2024
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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
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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

Practice Details

  • Languages
    English
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Managing Partner
    Firm Name
    Lawson Hatch, PLLC
  • Pro Bono Services
    Time Spent on Pro Bono Work: 10%

    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 our community through her work with the following organizations:•Board Member, Volunteer Lawyers Project•Board Member at Christ the King Retreat House•Volunteer Delivery Driver, Meals on Wheels of Syracuse•Leadership Greater Syracuse, Class of 2015•Volunteer at the Surrogate's Court Legal Clinic and the Crouse and Upstate Hospital Legal Clinic•Volunteer at the Vera House Legal Clinic•Legal Clinic Attorney Volunteer at the “Say Yes to Education” Legal Clinics•Former Board Member at Child Care Solutions, Inc.•Former Board Member at The Newland Center for Adult Learning and Literacy•Former Board Member at the Onondaga County Bar Association•Former Board Member at Prevention Network•Former Board Member at the Central New York Women's Bar Association•Former Assistant Coach of Syracuse Law School's Outlaw Moot Court Team•Former Adjunct Faculty at Cazenovia College – Sexuality, Gender and Law classEmilee was honored with the 2014 Distinguished Service Pro Bono Award by the Onondaga County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyer Project.

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Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    2009, Massachusetts
    2009, New York
    2018, Colorado
    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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Managing Partner at Lawson Hatch, PLLC
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3175 East Genesee Street, Suite 4Syracuse, NY 13224U.S.A.

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  • What is this attorney's primary practice area?
    The practice area Emilee K. Lawson Hatch spends the most time on is Wills.
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    Yes, Emilee K. Lawson Hatch is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
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    Emilee K. Lawson Hatch attended Syracuse University College of Law and University of Miami School of Law.