Barbara H. Cane, Attorney at Law, Of Counsel
"My mother died long before her time, bringing home the fact that immortality does not run in the family. When I decided to start my own practice, estate planning and settlement was an area in which I felt I could offer people something special."
Admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts, Barbara is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Rockland County Bar Association, the Women's Bar Association, the Philanthropic Planning Group of Greater New York, and the Harvard Club. Barbara speaks frequently on estate planning matters and charitable giving to a wide variety of professional & community audiences, including:
- WNET-13
- PPGGNY (Philanthropic Planning Group of Greater NY)
- United Hospice of Rockland County
- American Cancer Society
- NAPFA (National Association of Financial Advisors)
- AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Rockland Holocaust Study Center
|
- UJA Federation of NY
- NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
- Greenburgh Nature Center
- 92nd Street Y & JCC Rockland
- Hadassah
- Hudson Valley Planners
- Merrill Lynch
- Transplants Save Lives
- TOUCH AIDS Support Services
|
Barbara writes widely, and has had pieces to entertain and inform the public in a column entitled "Willpower" and to inform financial advisors in the pages of "Financial Planning" magazine. She was honored by United Hospice of Rockland County in 2000 for service and by the Rockland Development Council in 2007.
Barbara H. Cane is a graduate of Harvard College, magna cum laude, and a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School. She holds a master degree in African history from Columbia University. Following a judicial clerkship in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, she was an associate at Brown, Rudnick, Freed and Gesmer in Boston. Before starting her own practice in 1991, she worked as in-house counsel for several corporations and served as Vice President of Legal and Environmental Affairs for an international manufacturing company. Barbara is married, has two grown children and is an enthusiastic grandmother.
Courtney E. Boniface, Attorney at Law
 Courtney E. Boniface is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Women's Bar Association, The Rockland County Bar Association and the Rockland Business Women's Network.
Courtney, a life-long resident of Rockland County, is married and has two children.
She has served on the boards of the Foundation for Nyack Public School Education and Help from People to People, an organization dedicated to helping neighbors in need. She is currently active in Leave a Legacy Rockland, a cooperative effort of nonprofit organizations, estate planning professionals, and businesses dedicated to raising community awareness of charitable giving.
Courtney is a graduate of the 2004 class of Leadership Rockland and was honored in 2004 by the Rockland Business Association and Rockland Economic Development Council with the prestigious Forty-Under-Forty Award leadership award.
Courtney E. Boniface graduated from Fairfield University, where she majored in both Political Science and International Studies and minored in Peace and Justice. She graduated cum laude from Pace University School of Law, with certificates in both Environmental Law and International Law.
As a law student, she participated in the Health Law Clinic, focusing on estate planning issues, and in the Land Use Law Center, where she worked on a two year study of land use law in the tri-state area. Her work with the Land Use Law Center was published by the Wildlife Conservation Society as part of their Working Paper Series. She spent
a semester in England studying International Law at the University College of London. |
