Ms. Havard concentrates her practice in all areas of transfer taxes, estate planning and administration, fiduciary income tax and trust administration, and business law. She regularly employs efficient wealth transfer planning techniques and assists clients with estate and tax planning as well as business successions. She helps nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status matters with a focus on compliance. Additionally, she helps employers with qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans. While in law school, Ms. Havard served as an intern in the NYS Attorney General’s Office Health Bureau, conducted legal research on tax benefits of corporate restructuring in Moscow, Russia and worked as a research assistant to a taxation faculty professor at Albany Law School. She speaks English, Russian and German.