MPA CLE: Guardianship & Conservatorship: Basics, Nuances and Special Authorities
MPA SECTION CHAIR: Ashley LaPointe - Trusts & Estates
DATE/TIME: February 12, 2025, Noon Eastern
VENUE: Zoom (once registered you will be sent a Zoom link the day before the meeting)
SPEAKER: Lisa M. Cukier, Esq.
SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY:
Lisa Cukier is a Partner in Rubin and Rudman’s Family Law, Litigation, and Trusts and Estates departments. With a practice split among complex trust and estate litigation, service as a trustee and conservator, and sophisticated high-asset family law matters and family business disputes, Lisa is considered one of the most tactical, strategic, passionate, and creative attorneys in her field. Additionally, she has a niche practice in matters impacted by diminishing capacity, such as undue influence, financial exploitation controversies, and guardianship and conservatorship strategic intervention matters. Lisa has earned a reputation as an attorney to whom other attorneys often refer their exceedingly complicated or “unresolvable” cases. Distinguished for her unwavering commitment to safeguarding her clients’ interests, Lisa surpasses traditional legal counsel to offer first-class services to high-net-worth clients. She is renowned for navigating complex legal matters with discretion and precision and seamlessly integrating legal expertise with bespoke client care. She serves as trustee, guardian, and conservator for her clients upon request. Lisa serves as an expert witness for other fiduciary litigators. She is also periodically appointed by probate court judges to serve as a special master to investigate or make recommendations to the court and the litigants in high-profile and crisis matters. In this role, she engineers the case resolution, executing strategic action plans and monitoring compliance with court orders. She is often asked by the courts to serve as guardian ad litem for minor children in contentious divorce and trust disputes and to represent elders who are at risk of financial exploitation by third parties. Over the years, she has helped shape laws and taken on pro bono matters to redress inequities and inequalities for vulnerable populations, such as individuals with cognitive disabilities and mental illness, children needing adoption, financially exploited elders, and children experiencing gender variance. Lisa regularly works with family offices, providing legal solutions to protect the infrastructure of client wealth and family stability amid destabilizing events. Such events can include incapacity, death, divorce, blended family strife, mental health or addiction issues, and outside variables such as late-life romance and the influence of third parties in the lives of elders experiencing dementia and diminished capacity. Recognized for her expertise and skill, Lisa is a frequent speaker on trust and estate litigation, estate planning, and family law, including undue influence and financial exploitation of elders.
