Lissett Ferreira is a highly experienced elder and disabilities law practitioner with a focus on guardianships, estate planning, asset protection, trusts, Medicaid, and special needs planning.  Lissett is a Partner and chair of the Elder & Family Law practice groups at Meenan & Associates, LLC. She received her B.A. with Honors from Brown University and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she served as Symposium Editor of the Law Review, was selected as a Crowley International Human Rights Scholar, received the Murray Magna Cum Laude Public Service Award, was inducted into the Order of the Coif Honor Society, and placed on the Dean’s List. She is a recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, awarded to her to conduct research in Mozambique on issues related to gender and development.  

 

Lissett has experience working in legal services, the judiciary, and private practice. In law school, she summered at White & Case and interned at Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Legal Project. Following law school, she served as a law graduate at The Legal Aid Society.  She then served for nearly a decade as senior court attorney to Hon. Laura Visitacion-Lewis, a Justice the Supreme Court of the State of New York who presided over a matrimonial part and then a guardianship part.  Lissett also managed a successful solo law practice prior to joining Meenan & Associates, LLC, a boutique law firm that handles a variety of civil matters, in 2019.  

 

Lissett serves in leadership positions in the New York Women’s Bar Association (NYWBA) as an Executive Board member, Officer, co-chair of the Elder Law & Disabilities and Long-Term Finance Planning Committees, and member of the Judiciary Committee.  As co-chair of the Elder Law & Disabilities Committee, she inaugurated a highly successful bi-monthly “Lunch and Learn Elder Law” speaker series that attracts experienced practitioners to speak on topics of interest to the elder law bar.  She also participates in the statewide Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY) as a delegate to the Board on behalf of the NYWBA chapter. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. In addition, she is a former chair of a lawyers’ networking group and former member of the Small Law Firms Committee of the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA). 

 

Lissett has organized numerous programs and lectured widely at various bar associations, including the NYSBA, NYCBA and NYWBA, as well as for nationally recognized-CLE providers such as Lawline and Rossdale.  She is also active in the Guardianship Diversity Initiative, a collaboration between NYWBA and the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission under the leadership of Hon. Lisa A. Sokoloff, J.S.C.  This well-received project aims to increase diversity in the pool of people eligible for court appointments in guardianship proceedings. 

 

Lissett has published in the Fordham Law Review and the New York State Bar Association Elder Law & Special Needs Journal.  In 2020, she was recognized as an Emerging Leader by WBASNY.  She has been selected as a New York Metro Super Lawyer in the area of Elder Law every year since 2019; in 2017, she was selected as a New York Metro Rising Star in Elder Law.   

 

She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Josh, a high school teacher and their two sons, Nicholas and Ethan.