Practice Areas

• Estate and Trust Administration
• Estate Planning
• Tax Planning
• Guardianship

Practice Focus

Lissa’s practice focuses on estate and trust administration, estate and trust litigation, estate planning, tax planning, and guardianship. She has experience assisting personal representatives and trustees in handling the full range of matters in the administration of estates and trusts, in addition to routinely representing interested persons in litigation matters involving fiduciary-related cases and Will contests. Lissa’s experience in estate planning includes family wealth transfer planning and preservation, estate and gift taxation, and generation skipping transfer tax planning. She is skilled in drafting a multitude of estate planning documents for clients, including Wills, Revocable Trusts, and Irrevocable Trusts such as Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts (SLATs), Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs), Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs) and Insurance Trusts (ILITs). Lissa also routinely assists clients in the various issues that arise in guardianship cases; from appointment and administration, to termination and removal.

Lissa is committed to educating clients and guiding them through the legal system in the hopes to provide some relief in their time of need and grief, and in developing estate plans that are specifically curated to meet each client’s specific needs and objectives.

Education

• M.A. – American History – Norwich University, 2019
• J.D. – Charlotte School of Law, 2016
• B.A. – Criminal Justice – Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Bar and Court Admissions

• District of Columbia – January 2020
• Maryland – June 2021

Previous Work

Prior to joining Elville and Associates, Lissa worked as an attorney at a renowned boutique firm in Rockville, Maryland that focused on estate planning, estate and trust administration, and wealth planning and preservation.