Suzanne Brown Walsh joined Cummings & Lockwood’s Private Clients Group in 2001 and is a Principal in the Firm’s West Hartford office.  She focuses her practice in estate planning, particularly for families of children with special needs, and elder law and estate and trust administration.  Suzanne has spoken before countless groups and has authored several articles on estate planning and taxation.  She is a member of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Bars and holds a B.S. degree from Boston University and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School.

Suzanne was appointed by Governor Rell in 2005 to serve as one of Connecticut’s eight Commissioners on Uniform Laws.  As such, she represents the state as a member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a 116 year old organization which promotes statutory uniformity.   She recently served on the NCCUSL committee drafting the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, which addresses the issues associated with interstate conservatorship and guardianship disputes.  In addition, Suzanne has led the group studying and drafting the Connecticut Uniform Trust Code, which, when enacted, will be the first comprehensive codification of the law of trusts in Connecticut.  For the past two years, Suzanne was recognized in Connecticut Magazine as one of Connecticut’s Top 25 Women SuperLawyers, and in 2007 was named by Law & Politics as one of New England’s Top 50 Women SuperLawyers.  Suzanne is currently Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Estates and Probate Section.  In addition, Suzanne is the former Chair of the CBA’s Elder Law Section.  She serves as a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and was appointed as Vice-Chair of the ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Committee on Uniform Acts for Probate and Trust Law, for the 2006-2007 bar year.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC). She has also served on the Board of Directors of several community organizations, including PLAN of Connecticut, Inc., a nonprofit corporation providing low cost trust services to the families of the disabled.  Before it was disbanded, Suzanne served for years on the Connecticut Law Revision Commission’s Probate Advisory Committee.