Doris Licht has been named Lawyer of the Year in Trusts and Estates, (Providence, RI) by Best Lawyers, 2014.

Doris’ practice includes all aspects of trusts and estates, advising clients with respect to minimizing current taxes as well as death transfer taxes, facilitating transfer of wealth between generations, and controlling and protecting assets through the use of trusts and other devices. She has developed sophisticated plans to minimize the impact of transfer taxes, to freeze asset values, and to provide for orderly dispositions of business interests and has also designed on-going intra-family gift programs and planned appropriate formats for charitable giving.

Doris is also directly involved with estate administration representing both individual and corporate executors and trustees on probate matters, estate taxation matters, and trust income tax issues. She has considerable experience handling guardianship and conservatorship cases before probate courts. 

Best Lawyers, which compiles annual listings of outstanding lawyers through a rigorous peer-review process, selects a single lawyer in each specialty in each community to honor as the “Lawyer of the Year.”  These lawyers have received particularly high ratings by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Hinckley Allen provides a full range of legal services and pragmatic business advice to clients throughout the northeast. With offices in Albany, Boston, Concord, Hartford, New York and Providence, our team of lawyers provide legal counsel and in-depth industry knowledge in practice areas such as corporate, construction, litigation, real estate, and trust and estates law.