Ms. Flannery is a Senior Associate at Damon Morey, practicing in the firm’s Trust and Estate Department. Her practice focuses on trust and estate litigation, planning, and administration. Ms. Flannery's trust and estate litigation practice includes Will and Trust Contests, Trust Litigation, Will Construction Proceedings, Fiduciary Litigation, Fiduciary Removal Proceedings, Accounting Proceedings, Spousal Rights Proceedings, and Kinship Proceedings.
Ms. Flannery works with fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and creditors and handles guardianship matters and supplemental needs trust matters. She likewise handles litigated guardianship cases.
Ms. Flannery received her B.A. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and went on to receive her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. She was the recipient of both the Law School’s Robert J. Connelly Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy and the Professor Louis DelCotto Award for Excellence in Taxation. While attending law school, she also served as a law clerk in the Erie County Surrogate’s Court and a teaching assistant for the law school’s estate planning course.
Her professional memberships include the New York State Bar Association, in the Trust and Estates Section and a member of the Estate Litigation Subcommittee; American Bar Association; Bar Association of Erie County, Surrogate’s Court Practice Subcommittee, and the Estate Analysts of Western New York.
A frequent lecturer, Ms. Flannery most recently served as a lecturer on Estate Litigation and utilizing summary judgment and discovery tools in connection with probate disputes for the New York State Bar Association. Ms. Flannery is certified with the New York State Office of Court Administration to receive fiduciary appointments as court evaluator, guardian, guardian ad litem, receiver, referee and attorney for alleged incapacitated persons.
Active in her community, Ms. Flannery is the Treasurer of the UB Alumni G.O.L.D. Group and chairs its Education Committee. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Directors for the Canisius College Women’s Business Center and serves on its Coaching Committee. Ms. Flannery is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network and serves on the Personnel Committee. She is also an adjunct professor at Hilbert College in its Legal Studies Department. Dedicated to the community, Ms. Flannery also received the Empire State Counsel designation in 2011 for her commitment to providing pro bono service.
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