Ann Hetherwick Cahill

Experience

• Represented beneficiary of trust in a trustee removal action, resulting in voluntary resignation, appointment of successor trustee, and distribution of trust assets, without court involvement.
• Represented beneficiary of large estate in will contest involving cross-petitions for probate of will, which settled through mediation with substantial distribution to client.
• Represented individual who successfully obtained appointment as permanent guardian and conservator of her incapacitated mother.
• Represented heirs-at-law of large estate in will interpretation case, which settled through mediation with substantial distributions to our clients.
• Represented wife in contentious divorce, which resolved through settlement.
• Represented client in negotiation of prenuptial agreement.
• Represented client omitted from father's will, which resolved through settlement.

Honors & Awards

Massachusetts Rising Stars (2009, 2011-2012, 2017)

AV^® Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell

Community Involvement

Brookline Community Foundation's Professional Advisors Committee

• Member

The Mount, Boston Committee

Boston Chamber of Commerce Women's Leadership Program (2016-2017)

Memberships

Massachusetts Bar Association

• Massachusetts Law Review
  • Case Comment Editor (2017-current)
    
  • Book Review Editor (2015-2017)
  • Associate Editor (2014-2015)

Boston Bar Association

• Co-Chair, Fiduciary Litigation Section (September 2018)
• Member, Trusts & Estates Steering Committee (September 2018)

Trusts & Estates Consortium 

• Technology Co-Chair (2016-2018)
  

Boston Estate Planning Council

Speaking Engagements

"Depositions," Panelist, MCLE Taking Depositions Workshop, October 2015, 2016 and 2017

"Wills, Trusts, Probate & Estate Litigation," Speaker, Newton Community Education Seminar, June and September 2016, and May and October 2017

"Guardianship, Conservatorship, & Special Needs Planning," Speaker, Newton Community Education Seminar, May 2016

Articles & Publications

Articles

“Limits on Attorney’s Fees,” Massachusetts Bar Association Fifth Annual Probate Law Conference, November 2017

“Using Guardianship of Minors as Leverage to Change Addiction Issues of Parents,” Massachusetts Bar Association Fifth Annual Probate Law Conference, November 2017

“Leveraging Addiction Recovery in Parents by Use of Guardianship of Minors,” Boston Spirit Magazine, September/October 2017

“Guardianship,” MCLE Using Estate Planning to Leverage Treatment of Addiction & Mental Illness, April 2017

"Cy Pres and Deviation," MCLE Fiduciary Litigation in the Probate Court 3rd Edition, November 2016

“Equity Actions to Determine Ownership, Recover Assets,” Massachusetts Bar Association Fourth Annual Probate Law Conference, November 2016

"It's STILL Not Too Late to Act!" Massachusetts Divorce Law Monitor, June 2016

"It's Not Too Late to Act!" Massachusetts Divorce Law Monitor, April 2016

"Civil Law - When to Appeal from a Final Decision: After a Decision on the Merits, or After a Subsequent Decision Concerning Attorney's Fees? Roy Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund, -U.S.-, 134 S. Ct. 773 (2014)" Massachusetts Law Review Volume 96, No. 4, August 2015

"Civil Law - Abolishing the Distinction Between Natural and Unnatural Accumulations of Snow and Ice When Determining Negligence of Property Owner, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., 457 Mass. 368 (2010)," Massachusetts Law Review, Volume 94, No. 1, September 2011

"Book Review - When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice," Massachusetts Law Review, Volume 93, No. 1, June 2010

"Employment Law - Combining Non-Consecutive Periods of Employment to Qualify as 'Eligible Employee' Under the Family Medical Leave Act Rucker v. Lee Holding Co.,471 F. 3d 6 (1st Cir. 2006)," Massachusetts Law Review Volume 91, No. 4, January 2009

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