Sara J. Leichtman

Sara J. Leichtman is an associate in Nutter’s Private Client Department. Sara represents individuals, families, fiduciaries, and entrepreneurs on all aspects of estate planning, estate administration, and trust administration. Her practice emphasizes strategic and sophisticated planning to help clients protect assets, preserve wealth, and minimize estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Sara’s clients value her ability to simplify complex legal concepts and provide clear, actionable guidance during life’s most important transitions.

Sara provides personalized advice to clients across generations spanning a broad range of services, from establishing foundational estate planning tools such as wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, durable powers of attorney, and health care proxies to implementing advanced wealth transfer strategies, such as spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), and qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs).

In addition to her planning practice, Sara manages the administration of estates, overseeing probate matters, asset collection, and the preparation of federal and state estate tax returns. She handles complex matters such as special personal representative appointments, guardianships, conservatorships, and trust modifications and trust disputes.

Sara is also passionate about helping her clients achieve their goals through thoughtful charitable giving and the creation of private foundations, aligning clients’ philanthropic objectives with tax-efficient strategies.

Sara was accepted into the New England Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). She was a co-chair of the Practice Fundamentals Committee of the Boston Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Section and served on the Young Professional’s Board of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston.

Prior to joining Nutter, Sara’s professional experience includes interning with The Honorable Geraldine S. Hines at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judge Casper at the Federal District Court, and interning at the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

During law school, Sara served as an Executive Comment and Note Editor for the New England Law Review, president of the Women’s Law Caucus, and secretary of the Federal Bar Association. Upon graduating, Sara received the New England Law | Boston Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award in recognition of her overall scholastic accomplishment.

Education

New England Law | Boston, J.D., magna cum laude

Clark University, B.A.

Admissions

• Massachusetts