Cora A. Alsante is a partner in the Tax and Trusts & Estates Practices and the Leader of the Elder Law & Special Needs Practice. She is also a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Ms. Alsante focuses her practice on estate planning, trusts, planning for the elderly and disabled, and estate and trust administration.
Ms. Alsante frequently lectures for organizations such as the New York State Bar Association, Onondaga County Bar Association, Special Needs Alliance and Alzheimer’s Association on topics including guardianships, supplemental needs trusts, estate planning, planning for the elderly and disabled, and estate and trust administration.
Ms. Alsante was instrumental in creating and establishing the Loretto Foundation Community Trust, a pooled supplemental needs trust, which benefits many seniors and disabled individuals in the community.
Ms. Alsante was named one of the “Top 25 Female Upstate New York Super Lawyers” for 2011, 2013, 2020, 2021 and 2022 and was selected as a Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year” in the area of “Litigation – Trusts and Estates”, in Syracuse, NY, for 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024.
