Admitted to practice in 1979, Maureen Rothschild DiTata earned her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974) and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
She received her law degree from St. John’s University School of Law (1978). She is licensed to practice law before all New York State Courts and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and over the years has secured various pro hac vice admissions to practice in other states.
She is a member of the New York State, Nassau County and Suffolk County Bar Associations. She is the current co-chairperson of the Elder Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and serves on its Surrogate’s Court Estates and Trusts Committee and its Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee.
She also belongs to the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Long Island Chapter of the National Aging in Place Council [NAIPC], the Mineola/Garden City Rotary and the North Shore Service Group. She has been honored by the Yashar Chapter of Hadassah as the 2010 Woman of the Year and serves on the Attorney Advisory Board of LIAF (the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation), on the Advisory Council of the American Heart Association and on the Community Advisory Board of The Amsterdam at Harborside, a life care community in Port Washington. She is a frequent lecturer on issues concerning estate and asset preservation and elder law and has written numerous articles on issues concerning estate planning, special needs planning and planning for pets, asset preservation, Surrogate’s Court practice and elder law.
Call Maureen at 516-328-2300 or email her.