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Harry S. Margolis founded Margolis Bloom & D’Agostino, a ten-lawyer law firm with offices in Wellesley, in 1987. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law. His practice concentrates on elder law, planning for individuals with disabilities, and estate trust administration. Margolis was the founding editor of The ElderLaw Report, a monthly newsletter for elder law attorneys, the ElderLaw Forms Manual and  The ElderLaw Portfolio Series, all published by Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Margolis is a Fellow of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He has served on the adjunct faculty of Boston College Law School, has been designated a “Super Lawyer” since 2005, one of top 100 Super Lawyers in New England for 2014 and in Massachusetts from 2019 through 2024. 

Margolis was the founder and President of ElderLawAnswers as well as a co-founder and director of the Academy of Special Needs Planners. More recently, he created the website www.AskHarry.info where he answers consumer questions about estate planning issues and published Get Your Ducks in a Row: The Baby Boomers Guide to Estate Planning and The Baby Boomers Guide to Trusts: Your All-Purpose Estate Planning Tool. He also answers consumer questions about estate planning in columns on MarketWatch.com and TheStreet.com. Margolis believes strongly that the best legal solutions are achieved through the partnership of well-informed clients and attorneys who combine great technical expertise, experience and an ability to listen.

Readers are welcome to send their thoughts about issues that affect them or their story ideas to Harry at hsm@margolisbloom.com.