|
Areas of Practice include:
Elder Law & Disability
Planning
Estates, Trusts & Personal
Planning
Tax & Pension
Wealth Management
Ami S. Longstreet has been an attorney at Mackenzie Hughes since 1998
and is a partner in the firm. She is charged with helping businesses and
members of the Syracuse community understand estate and trust planning
and administration as well as elder law, including asset protection and
Medicaid planning, and planning for individuals with disabilities.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont
and worked in Vermont as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for two years.
After that, she attended Syracuse University College of Law and graduated
cum laude. While a student, she was a member of the Justinian Honorary
Law Society and the Syracuse University Law Journal of International Law.
In 1985, Ami was admitted to the New York Bar, the U.S. District Court,
Northern District of New York, and in 1986, the U.S. Court of Appeals,
Second Circuit.
Ami's professional affiliations include the Onondaga County Bar Association,
the Central New York Women's Bar Association, the New York State (Elder
Law Section- Past President; and Trusts and Estates Section) and American
(Real Property, Probate and Trusts; and Tax Sections) Bar Associations.
She is also a volunteer speaker for the New York State, Onondaga County
and Central New York Women's Bar Associations, as well as other nonprofit
organizations. She is a board member of the Estate Planning Council of
Central New York, Chair of the Governance Council of the Women's Fund
of Central New York, a Fund of the Central New York Community Foundation,
a board member of the YMCA Greater Syracuse and from 1996 to 1999, she
served as an adjunct professor of "Elder Law" at Syracuse University
College of Law. She has been listed in the Elder Law Section of "Best
Lawyers in America" for 2010 and the previous three years 2009 and
was elected as a Fellow in ACTEC (American College of Trust and Estate
Counsel).
Ami also spent a substantial amount of time in 2000 and 2001 co-authoring
eight quarterly articles titled, "Tax News," for the Elder Law
Attorney, the official newsletter of the Elder Law Section of the NYSBA.
She has also written outlines for many of the speaking engagements listed
above.
Prior to joining Mackenzie Hughes, Ami worked as an attorney at another
large law firm in Syracuse, subsequent to practicing as an attorney in
Albany for five years. She was also self-employed as a practicing attorney
for four years. In all of these positions, her area of expertise was elder
law and estate and trust planning and administration.
|
