I use my training and experience to achieve our clients’ estate planning goals and protect assets. I also try to live and re-enforce our firm values of integrity, quality, respect, service, and fun.

When a loved one needs care, I don’t want my clients to have to worry about losing their home or assets. 

I love my wife Kate and our three beautiful children, currently ages 17, 15 and 12. I love sailing and a good campfire, but not at the same time.

You can’t get what you want until you know what you want.

We have a 2-year-old Australian Labradoodle named Nala. She is fantastic, loving, smart, and pretty well-behaved. Our family loves to go to northern Maine to our family’s camp to fish, hike, swim, ski, bake pies, sit by the fire, and generally relax without electricity or internet. We love to sail in and around Buzzard’s Bay, spending overnights as much as we can in beautiful spots like Hadley’s Harbor, Lake Tashmoo, or Red Brook Harbor. Michelle Beneski and I are the first and third of 6 children.

We grew up on Long Pond in East Freetown and spent much of our days waterskiing and swimming. At night we would often spend time with our family around the fire pit in our front yard, facing the lake. It was not fancy, but a wonderful place to be a kid. I think fondly of and value 2 very formative years that I spent volunteering immediately after college. In the first year, I worked through the Holy Cross Associate program in Colorado Springs, CO on a locked hospital unit for chemically dependent and psych-disordered teenagers. I was the assistant to everyone, the gym teacher, and got to sit in on process groups. I spent the second year in Oakland CA as a co-director of a small homeless shelter (6 guests and three staff) called “Andre House.”

We also ran outreach programs like a free furniture delivery service and delivered meals to the local homeless population. Both years were challenging and rewarding and shaped my desire to serve. Early in my legal career, I was a prosecutor eventually assigned to the Child Abuse Unit in the Superior Court. I also served on the Homicide Rotation which meant I went out with the state police to murder scenes, car accidents, overdoses, hangings, etc. I learned how the professionalism and thoroughness of those investigations often made the difference in achieving justice for the victims. 

Hadley’s Harbor. The Mattapoisett Inn.