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Deborah DiNardo | Pierce Atwood LLP | Partner
TRUST AND ESTATES are a family business. Deborah DiNardo, a partner at Providence-based law firm Pierce Atwood LLP, knows this well.
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DiNardo meets with grieving families, helping them create an estate plan and navigate the complexities of the end of life. In the process, she ends up creating relationships that last generations.
“Your level of service is what causes them to want to work again in the future with you,” she said.
As an attorney, she deals with a wide range of clients, tailoring estate plans to their specific needs while comforting grieving families.
DiNardo has extensive work experience in Rhode Island, first moving here as a junior in high school. She attended Providence College and then law school at Syracuse University. She worked at what was then Fleet Bank, now Bank of America Corp., in its wealth management department before becoming an attorney at Winograd Shine & Zacks PC, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP and Orson & Brusini.
At Fleet, DiNardo said she did everything from “small, tiny custody accounts to more significant year revocable trusts, estate administration, financial planning [and] budgeting.”
She credits the bank for part of her success as an attorney.
“I think it was very important to have that experience on the other side – the non-legal side,” DiNardo said. “Inside the trust department, you’re dealing with investment issues, you’re dealing with fiduciaries who are maybe not fully understanding what the job is like – you have a much more well-rounded perspective.”
She also commended the team at Pierce Atwood for its collaboration on tough cases.
“It’s a very difficult business, in my opinion, to do on your own,” DiNardo said, adding that this collaboration is “to the benefit of the client.”
As an attorney, clients tell her extremely private and personal information, which she describes as a “privilege.”
“It’s a privilege to feel for people, to feel for clients, to feel that they could tell us and they know it goes nowhere,” she said.
In the years ahead, DiNardo looks forward to further deepening the relationship with her clients.
