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6/4/2009
Laura Weintraub Beck Named One Of “40 Under 40” By Fairfield County Business Journal
GREENWICH, CT, June 4, 2009 – Cummings & Lockwood LLC is pleased to announce that Laura Weintraub Beck has been selected as one of Fairfield County’s 2009 “40 Under 40.”  The Fairfield County Business Journal and more than a dozen business organizations and chambers of commerce in Fairfield County organized a competition to select 40 business executives who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership qualities, an ongoing commitment to personal and professional development and outstanding professional accomplishments that have made an impact on business in and the professional image of Fairfield County.
 
Laura is a Principal resident in the Greenwich, Connecticut, office of Cummings & Lockwood where she is a member of the Private Clients Group.  She focuses her practice on estate planning, including business succession planning and planning for real estate holdings, estate administration, probate litigation and trust administration.
 
Laura is a member of the Executive Committee of the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, a member of the American Bar Association, and a member of the Trusts & Estates section of the New York State Bar Association.  Laura is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York.
 
Laura received her B.A. from Trinity College in 1992 and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.  She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, contributing author and editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems and a winner of the Emil Schlessinger Labor Law Prize.  Prior to attending law school, Laura worked for then Senator Joseph R. Biden on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee drafting reports and legislation relating to crime and drug policies.
 
Laura is on the New Canaan Country School Alumni Council and is on the Board of Directors of the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, an organization which provides mental health services to children.