Lisa Newfield is a member of the firm's Trusts and Estates Department. Ms. Newfield devotes much of her practice to personal estate planning for individuals, major gift planning for non-profit institution development offices and planned giving for non-profit institutions and philanthropists. Ms. Newfield is a noted lecturer on charitable giving, exempt organization and various trusts and estates and tax topics. She has spoken before many bar associations, educational institutions and charitable organizations, including, but not limited to, the National Conference on Philanthropic Planning, Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, Pace University School of Law, and The Westchester Women's Bar Association. She has contributed to Tax Planning Tips for Professional Advisors, the newsletter of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Ms. Newfield has also appeared on Westchester County's local cable show "Financial Planning with Legal Ease."