Elizabeth H. Sillin

Born: Syracuse, New York, 1955

Education: Wesleyan University, B.A., cum laude, 1977; Cornell University, M.A., 1980, Western New England College School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 1998

Practice Areas: Health Law; Real Estate; Estate Planning

Admissions: 1998, Massachusetts

Miscellaneous Information: Senior Note Editor, Western New England Law Review, 1997-1998. Law Clerk to Hon. John M. Greaney, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1998-1999.

Biography:

Liz Sillin is a partner in the firm’s Estate Planning and Administration Department, the Health Law Practice Group, and the Schools, Universities and Colleges Practice Group. Her practice focuses on estate planning and administration and on regulatory compliance for nonprofit institutions, including health care organizations and private schools and universities.

Ms. Sillin received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, cum laude, an M.A. from Cornell University, and graduated summa cum laude from Western New England College School of Law, where she was Senior Note Editor of the Law Review. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable John M. Greaney, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1998.

Ms. Sillin is active in a variety of professional and community volunteer organizations. She serves on the Probate Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and is a member of various state and local bar associations and professional health law and estate planning associations. Ms. Sillin also is a board member of the Greenfield Community College Foundation and of the Franklin Land Trust, a member of the grant review committee of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, and serves on various town committees in Sunderland, Massachusetts. Ms. Sillin is a frequent speaker on health privacy and estate planning issues, and has been named as a “Massachusetts Rising Star” in the May 2005 and upcoming May 2006 issues of Boston Magazine in the area of Trusts and Estate Planning.