Kristin Wildman Shirahama
E-mail: kshirahama@rfglawyers.com

Disability Law
Elder Law
Estate Planning
Probate and Trusts

Attorney Shirahama, a partner in the Firm's Planning and Probate Group, concentrates her practice in elder law, disability law and estate planning. Attorney Shirahama’s practice includes the preparation of estate plans for clients with family members with disabilities or other special needs and advising clients on minimizing federal and state estate taxes. She also advises trustees, guardians or other fiduciaries on benefits and trust administration matters. Before joining the firm in September 2004, Attorney Shirahama was a clinical instructor at the Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, where her work focused on estate and permanency planning for families affected by HIV and AIDS. Attorney Shirahama is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Women's Bar Association (where she serves on the board of directors and co-chairs the Legislative Policy Committee), the Boston Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section and the Massachusetts Bar Association Probate Section. Attorney Shirahama volunteers for the Women’s Bar Foundation Elder Law Project, and was selected among younger lawyers as a "Rising Star" in the field of elder law, as published in Boston Magazine in November 2010. Attorney Shirahama graduated magna cum laude from Colby College with honors and received her law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she was Notes and Comments Editor of the Insurance Law Journal.

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