Lisa P. Staron

As a partner in the Firm’s Trusts and Estates Department, Lisa Staron’s practice includes estate, tax, and business succession planning, and estate and trust administration.

Lisa also has significant experience representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries in complex trust and estates litigation, including will contests, trustee surcharge and removal litigation, contested accountings, contested conservatorships and guardian proceedings, and trust and will construction actions. In addition to her litigation practice, Lisa has considerable experience with alternative dispute resolution procedures, including mediation and arbitration.

Lisa is a frequent speaker to local professional organizations and advisor groups.

Lisa is a magna cum laude, Pi Sigma Alpha graduate of the University of Connecticut and received her law degree (tax concentration with honors) from Quinnipiac University School of Law.

• Probate and Trust Dispute Resolution
• Trusts and Estates

• Connecticut Bar Association, Estates and Probate Section Executive Committee
• Connecticut Bar Journal, Board of Editors
• Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford, Inc., Treasurer

• Hartford Business Journal, 40 Under Forty (2021)
• Connecticut Law Tribune, New Leaders in the Law (2016)
• Super Lawyers® Rising Star (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
• Quinnipiac University School of Law, Dean’s Scholar
• Quinnipiac University School of Law, Outstanding Legal Scholarship Award
• Quinnipiac University School of Law, Superior Classroom Performance Award
• Quinnipiac University School of Law, Service to the Law School Award

Contributing author to “Manual for Court-Appointed Attorneys in Courts of Probate” by the Integrity of the Practice / Pro Bono Subcommittee of the Estates & Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, May 2016

• January 2, 2020 - Murtha Cullina LLP Announces 2020 Attorney Promotions
• May 23, 2019 - Murtha Cullina LLP Attorney Lisa P. Staron Elected to the Board of Directors of the Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford, Inc.
• January 5, 2018 - Murtha Cullina LLP Promotes Four Attorneys to Counsel
• September 23, 2016 - Murtha Cullina LLP Attorneys Recognized as “New Leaders in the Law” by Connecticut Law Tribune
• Murtha Cullina Welcomes New Associates

• April 7, 2021 - Trusts & Estates Group News: Should I Consider Making Lifetime Gifts?
• March 4, 2021 - Trusts & Estates Group News: Key 2021 Wealth Transfer Tax Numbers
• March 24, 2020 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Estate and Financial Planning in Uncertain Times
• December 12, 2019 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Key 2020 Wealth Transfer Tax Numbers
• December 10, 2019 - Trusts and Estates Group News: We Made the List for You. Now Check it Twice!
• August 8, 2019 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Asset Protection Trusts: Connecticut Makes History by Enacting a Domestic Asset Protection Trust Law
• December 6, 2018 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Make Your List and Check it Twice: A Year-End Estate and Financial Planning Checklist
• July 11, 2018 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Your Mid-Year Estate Planning Checklist
• October 27, 2017 - Trusts & Estates Group News - Are You Looking Forward To 2018? We Are!
• September 15, 2017 - Trusts & Estates Group News: Hurricanes, Displacement And The Effect On Domicile
• June 6, 2017 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Your Mid-Year Estate Planning Checklist: 10 things you should be doing now
• January 5, 2017 - Trusts and Estates Group News: Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat. But Where Are You Actually Domiciled?
• December 30, 2016 - Trusts and Estates Group News: 2017 Federal Inflation Adjustments
• September 27, 2016 - Trusts and Estates Group News: When Will Trust Assets Be Considered Available Assets When Applying For Medicaid In Connecticut?

• June 24, 2016 - Lisa Staron will be presenting "Establishing Residency "Tax Me If You Can: Cutting Ties and Establishing New Domicile"at the semi-annual Sacred Heart University Tax Institute in Fairfield, CT.
• April 2014 - Lisa Staron to moderate "Digital Assets: The New Frontier for Estate Planning and Administration" Presentationfor CLE

• Connecticut
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. Supreme Court

• Quinnipiac University School of Law (J.D., with honors, 2007)
• University of Connecticut (B.A., magna cum laude, 2003)