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Lisa Powers
D: (585) 419-8869  
lpowers@harrisbeach.com

Lisa M. Powers

  Senior Counsel

(585) 419-8869  |
  lpowers@harrisbeach.com
“Individuals and business owners deserve empathetic, informed counsel. For 20 years I have helped clients sort through the maze of financial, legal and medical challenges aging brings. Whether working with executives and business owners or retirees, I apply strategic thinking and passionate advocacy to protect assets and assist clients with leaving a legacy of more than money.”
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Areas of Experience
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Education
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Lisa M. Powers specializes in elder law, estate planning and estate and trust administration. She has assisted clients on these matters in greater Rochester and across New York for the past 20 years while developing essential tools for the caregivers that she consults. In addition, as a certified personal finance expert and business coach she has worked with startups to C-suite executives on revamping service packages and pricing, mindset and productivity since 2012. She offers workshops, executive briefings and has hosted multi-day retreats.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS + SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Lisa has frequently lectured for state and local bar association programs and community groups on various aspects of elder law, estate and tax planning and estate administration, ethics of representing individuals with diminished capacity and business growth and wealth strategies for leaders and owners.
  • Lisa has appeared in the Rochester Business Journal, the Daily Record, appeared on the WHAM-AM 1180 “Meet the Experts” series and been interviewed by national and international experts on business, asset protection planning and finance.
  • Most recently, Lisa has appeared once a month on Seven Figures with Sandy Waters, a personal finance podcast available on Apple podcasts.
  • Matter of Kern, FH #3873663J, (Monroe County, July 8, 2003) This fair hearing successfully challenged a New York State policy that attempted to force a married Medicaid applicant to drain his IRA account without legal authority, a matter that still holds more than 15 years later.

Professional and Civic

  • ARC of Monroe Foundation Board, Chair
  • Lifespan of Greater Rochester, Board Member and Governance Committee
  • New York State Bar Association, Trusts and Estates and Elder Law sections
  • Monroe County Bar Association, Trusts and Estates section
  • Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys, member, former membership chair
  • Rochester Women’s Network, former membership vice president
  • Flower City Down Syndrome Network, Inc., former board member

Lisa also participates with Women TIES, the Women’s Council and the Greater Rochester Association of Professionals for the Elderly (“GRAPE”). She created and moderated a Facebook group for women leaders. “The B Factor,” and ran a local networking group where she engaged multidisciplinary speakers to advance the needs of business owners and high-level executives.

Recognition

  • Athena Award, finalist, 2015

Legal Practices

Wills, Trusts and Estates

New York

U.S. District Court, New York - Northern District

Albany Law School

JD
1997
cum laude

Georgetown University

BS
1993
Ithaca, NY Office
Rochester, NY Office
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■ Areas of Expertise

Wills, Trusts and Estates Legal Practice

■ Profile

Lisa M. Powers specializes in elder law, estate planning and estate and trust administration. She has assisted clients on these matters in greater Rochester and across New York for the past 20 years while developing essential tools for the caregivers that she consults. In addition, as a certified personal finance expert and business coach she has worked with startups to C-suite executives on revamping service packages and pricing, mindset and productivity since 2012. She offers workshops, executive briefings and has hosted multi-day retreats.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS + SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Lisa has frequently lectured for state and local bar association programs and community groups on various aspects of elder law, estate and tax planning and estate administration, ethics of representing individuals with diminished capacity and business growth and wealth strategies for leaders and owners.
  • Lisa has appeared in the Rochester Business Journal, the Daily Record, appeared on the WHAM-AM 1180 “Meet the Experts” series and been interviewed by national and international experts on business, asset protection planning and finance.
  • Most recently, Lisa has appeared once a month on Seven Figures with Sandy Waters, a personal finance podcast available on Apple podcasts.

■ Representative Matters

  • Matter of Kern, FH #3873663J, (Monroe County, July 8, 2003) This fair hearing successfully challenged a New York State policy that attempted to force a married Medicaid applicant to drain his IRA account without legal authority, a matter that still holds more than 15 years later.

■ Professional and Civic

  • ARC of Monroe Foundation Board, Chair
  • Lifespan of Greater Rochester, Board Member and Governance Committee
  • New York State Bar Association, Trusts and Estates and Elder Law sections
  • Monroe County Bar Association, Trusts and Estates section
  • Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys, member, former membership chair
  • Rochester Women’s Network, former membership vice president
  • Flower City Down Syndrome Network, Inc., former board member

Lisa also participates with Women TIES, the Women’s Council and the Greater Rochester Association of Professionals for the Elderly (“GRAPE”). She created and moderated a Facebook group for women leaders. “The B Factor,” and ran a local networking group where she engaged multidisciplinary speakers to advance the needs of business owners and high-level executives.

■ Admissions

  • Athena Award, finalist, 2015

■ Education

Albany Law School
 ,JD
 ,1997
 ,cum laude
Georgetown University
 ,BS
 ,1993

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