Scott E. Squillace Esq.

Scott Squillace is a business and estate planning attorney with over 27 years of experience practicing law.

He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York and Washington D.C. and has been admitted to the Bar in Paris, France as an Avocat. Scott began his practice career as a corporate attorney at Skadden, Arps where he worked to open its Paris and Moscow offices in the early 1990's. During his time at Skadden he did significant private and public company corporate and securities work.

Scott also has significant business counseling experience as an in-house corporate attorney, first as General Counsel for Levi Strauss & Co.'s European Division based in Brussels and later as the first General Counsel for Grand Circle Travel, a privately held Boston based travel company. He also served as European Counsel for Cabot Corporation, a NYSE public company.

As the founder of Squillace & Associates, P.C. - a boutique law firm in Boston's historic Back Bay - Scott now specializes in life, estate and business planning matters with other attorneys in his firm. His focus includes tax, asset protection and estate planning needs for international clientele, corporate executives, small business owners, physicians and attorneys. He has a particular focus on helping same sex couples with their unique planning needs and is a member of the Wealth Counsel, a national network of estate planning attorneys where he works in collaboration with other attorneys nationally.

Scott is also a Certified Legacy Advisor of The Sunbridge Legacy Institute, and a member of The Boston Foundation's Professional Advisors Committee and Co-Chair of its Equality Fund an Endowment for the LGBT Community. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Boston Estate Planning Council and is a member of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association, Pride Planners, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association where he currently co-chair's it's Estate Planning Fundamentals Committee. He has been a columnist for Practical Estate Planning and lectures and writes frequently on estate and business planning as well as charitable giving strategies and planning for the LGBT community.

He holds his bachelors degree from Fordham University in New York; has studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris and earned his J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

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