Alison’s practice focuses on estate and tax planning for high net worth individuals, their families, and their businesses. She advises clients on advanced estate planning techniques to minimize income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
In addition, she counsels fiduciaries and beneficiaries with respect to planning opportunities for trusts and estates and the resolution of disputes.
Alison also represents individuals and small businesses in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. She successfully represents clients under audit and at the appellate level involving a broad range of tax disputes.
viewpoints
January 1, 2025 Deadline Is Fast Approaching for Compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act
October 29, 2024 | Advisory | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Alison Glover, Susan Kealy, Quinn Hetrick, Mirele A. Sagan
Read about compliance deadlines associated with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), types of entities subject to CTA reporting requirements, information required in a BOI report, and filing requirements for BOI reports.
Compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act Necessary for Many Estate Planning Clients
December 13, 2023 | Alert | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Alison Glover, Susan Kealy, Quinn Hetrick, Mirele A. Sagan
In this alert, we discuss the reporting entities, information to be reported, ongoing reporting requirements, and additional considerations applicable to estate planning clients.
Estate Tax Changes Included in New Massachusetts Tax Relief Package
October 6, 2023 | Alert | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Alison Glover, Susan Kealy, Quinn Hetrick, Mirele A. Sagan
Read about a Massachusetts tax relief package recently signed into law, which subjects only estate assets above $2 million to state-level estate tax and makes several changes to Massachusetts income tax laws.
Family Gift Planning — Perhaps the Best Time Is Now
October 19, 2020 | Advisory | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Susan Kealy, Alison Glover, Quinn Hetrick
Favorable Changes to Estate, Gift and GST Tax Laws Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
February 1, 2018 | Advisory | By Peter Miller, Kurt Steinkrauss, Susan Kealy, Alison Glover, Quinn Hetrick
News & Press
The Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 184 Mintz Attorneys across 56 Practice Areas
August 15, 2024
187 Mintz attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Notably, three Mintz attorneys received 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” awards, and 64 firm attorneys were included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Mintz is pleased to announce that 120 firm attorneys have been recognized as leaders by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Twenty-Eight Mintz Attorneys Named To Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers List
November 22, 2022
In its second annual edition, 28 Mintz attorneys were named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers list.
Mintz Announces Nine Newly Elevated Members
December 17, 2020
Events & Speaking
Estate Planning in Massachusetts in 2023 – It’s Not One Size Fits All
Boston Bar Association
How Estate Planners, Fiduciaries, & Litigators “Fix” Trusts
Boston Bar Association - 16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Non-Judicial Settlement Agreements – How are they being used
Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Planning for Contested Estates: Estate Planning Strategies to Avoid (or Prevail In) Litigation
Boston Bar Association
16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
Recognition & Awards
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: Selected for the Women's Leadership Program (2014)
Boston Magazine Top Lawyers – Trusts and Estates (2021)
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch - Tax Law, Trust and Estates (2024)
Involvement
- Co-Chair, Tax Law Updates Committee of the Boston Bar Association
- Member, Professional Advisors Network, The Boston Foundation
- Member, Boston Estate Planning Council
- Member, Trusts & Estates Consortium
- Founding Member and Co-Chair, Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston Friends Council Young Professionals Committee