About Landry Law
Landry Law, PLLC was established in 2020 by Attorney Lisa Ann Landry with a goal of utilizing proactive planning in a comprehensive, comfortable manner in which clients can confidently make decisions in individualized plans based upon their unique situation and goals. Attorney Landry wanted to offer an alternative to the often intimidating manner of traditional legal practice and establish a practice where all are welcome and supported.
Landry Law is different from traditional legal practices in a number of ways. First, with a focus on client comfort and education, Attorney Landry often spreads out information into multiple calls with clients to avoid overwhelm. By ensuring clients can make informed decisions, better, individualized plans prioritizing the client’s goals are created. Second, Landry Law utilizes technology to make the practice more efficient, which is especially important when dealing with international clients and complex matters while remaining reasonably priced. Third, Landry Law strives to support the community through providing education and maintaining relationships with clients. Fourth, Landry Law focuses on offering an alternative to traditional legal practices. This provides an option for those who may feel intimidated, left out, or otherwise want to avoid traditional firms, including young families, single people, young professionals, LGBTQ+, nontraditional families, nontraditional households, special needs families, those abroad, and more.
Landry Law is committed to encouraging diversity in the community and creating an environment where all are welcome. This includes ensuring access to and education regarding planning and administration services as well as supporting other businesses in the community with similar commitments.
Proactively Planning to Prepare, Protect, and Preserve
Wondering what this phrase, which Landry Law often references or uses with modifications, means here?
Proactive
In each trusts & estates, tax, and business law, there are two sides to the work: proactive and reactive. I will provide some broad examples for each of the three practice areas. In trusts and estates, proactive planning is the work done before there is an issue, while reactive planning is the work done when an issue arises (for example, last minute estate planning for someone with a terminal, short term diagnosis) and administration is carrying out the planning done. In tax, proactive means looking at your situation and taking the necessary steps to achieve your goal while reactive means preparing the returns based on what was done in the past (which can be more expensive). In business law, proactive is filing with the state, having the appropriate organizing and operating documents in place, and continuing to operate properly as a separate entity whereas reactive is handling the fallout such as if someone sues and is able to reach you personally. (Please note that Landry Law, PLLC does not handle the reactive side for business law.) In all of these areas, being proactive reduces the burdens on you and loved ones when something does happen, allows you to achieve your goals, and has more flexibility. Reactive work generally requires significantly more legal work (and therefore higher legal fees) with fewer options and higher burdens overall. This is why Landry Law, PLLC works to educate people about the need for proactive planning and encourages proactive planning as a general matter.
Planning
The unifying theme of the three primary practice areas for Landry Law, PLLC is planning. All three areas focus on integral parts of your life and work and help you find ways to reach your related goals. In trusts & estates, planning falls under the general umbrella of estate planning. Tax planning can be done in relation to the other practice areas or for an individual, whether for a specific circumstance or on a regular basis. Business planning encompasses selecting and setting up the appropriate entity type, succession planning, and work for the continued health of the business.
Prepare
By planning, you are preparing for the future. Preparation is not simply recognizing that something might happen (though that is a good first step); preparation is analyzing many plausible outcomes and determining an appropriate response to each, then taking that information to institute a roadmap now that will guide you through many such responses with your wishes front and center. Once someone has prepared, they often feel a sense of relief and security, as if something arises, they likely have a response lined up in a way that may reduce the overall burden.
Protect
Protection comes in many forms. It can avoid high burdens, such as time, emotional, and financial ones. It can shield assets in some situations. It can set up a family or entity to continue for a long time. Protecting oneself and one’s loved ones is an important part of proactive planning.
Preserve
Preservation is a goal of many clients. Whether it be the preservation of assets by reducing potential tax liabilities, preservation of a family home for generations to come, preservation of a business to last beyond its founder’s time working, or preservation of one’s legacy, legal documents can lay the foundation. The documents can lay out your intentions and helpful information as well as providing options that may not otherwise be available.
Taken together, proactively planning to prepare, protect, and preserve means that you are looking at the long-term to determine your goals, establishing legal documents to lay a foundation to meet your goals, and maintaining the cohesive plan to ensure that it stays viable and updated, even through changes in your life. Landry Law, PLLC helps you in maintaining and carrying out your planning once established as well.
Where Planning and Administration Meet
Planning encompasses looking ahead to prepare, protect, and preserve. As your life changes, so should your plan. With Landry Law, you can start, update, and implement your plan to match your life.
When the time comes to put your plan into action, Landry Law is here to help guide you or your loved ones. In administering your plan – whether business, tax, estate, and/or trust – those involved must look to your wishes as well as the situation at that time and going forward. By taking a holistic view, your goals and wishes remain the guiding light through the future.
Attorney Profile
Lisa Ann Landry, Esq.
Lisa Ann is passionate about providing individualized, high quality legal services in a manner that allows clients to be comfortable and confident making informed decisions. Licensed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Lisa Ann focuses on trusts & estates, tax, and business law, which includes estate planning, trusts, probate administration, trust administration, tax planning, business establishment, business succession planning, ongoing business and tax advice, and more. Removing as many overwhelming, frightening, and daunting aspects of the client experience as she can, Lisa Ann enjoys the complexities that come in individualized work and in making the planning and administration accessible to all, including nontraditional clients.
Lisa Ann grew up around business owners and tax and thought she may be interested in working with businesses in a different way. That led her to start working for a general practice during high school. While there, Lisa Ann learned about the practice of many areas of law. Attending Bentley University, her love of working with businesses grew, as did her interest in working with people around the world. Over time, through studies and work, Lisa Ann realized that her loves of business, trusts & estates, finance, tax, and international work can be combined. That is when she decided to pursue a career in this. During her time at Boston University School of Law, Lisa Ann studied at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany in a program focused on international business law. From her first job out of law school, she has focused on her selected practice areas and the overlap between them.
Over time, we all learn different aspects of our work that we enjoy. Lisa Ann did this, pulling special needs planning into her field as well. In order to pull the international aspect of these practice areas further into her understanding, Lisa Ann worked at a law firm that specializes in international tax, trusts & estates, and business just prior to starting Landry Law, PLLC.
With Landry Law, PLLC, Lisa Ann is able to work with clients she wants and focused on the individualized planning with their goals first. Putting together the puzzle pieces of plans is intellectually interesting while truly helping people find the best plan for their goals.
Connecting with Landry Law
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This group focuses on making the terms, concepts, and process of trusts & estates, tax, and business law understandable. Beyond the units explaining some commonly requested information and often confusing terms, members of the private group are welcome to post publicly or submit questions on these topics. While no legal advice can be provided by this method (only hypotheticals and general information is discussed) and no attorney-client relationship is formed, the intent of the group is to help you understand and become more comfortable with the topics, removing the overwhelm, intimidation, and fear of the processes.
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