About Mary Pierson
Mary Pierson Keating has constructed a continuous legal career that bridges two state bar rolls and an extended standing curiosity in matters that touch growing older clients and their families. She educated within the liberal arts before turning to regulation. The aggregate of fields gives her a plainspoken fashion and an eye fixed for practical element.
She graduated from Manhattanville College in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Religion. She then attended Yale Law School, earning her J.D. in 1985. Those academic years shaped a strategy that values clean writing and careful evaluation. They also set the stage for later work in courts and counseling settings.
Keating is certified to practice in each New York and Connecticut. She belongs to the American Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association and the Fairfield County Bar Association. She is also a member of Elder Counsel. Those affiliations feed a steady stream of continuing education and expert contacts. They also place her in regular conversation with colleagues who handle elder law, estate administration and associated fields.
Her hands-on work has centered on problems that generally have an effect on older adults and their families. That has covered property making plans, estate administration management and conservatorship things, along counseling on long-term care planning. She handles transactional work and appears in court when cases require it. Clients who need documents drafted or who face contested probate things have turned to her for routine representation and problem fixing.
Colleagues describe her as orderly in the court and direct in conferences. She favors simple language over legal jargon when explaining alternatives to clients. In case work she focuses on timelines, statutory time limits and the realistic steps that get to the bottom of disputes or secure advantages. The practice calls for each technical information of laws and an ability to give an explanation for complex rules to humans under stress. She objectives to offer both.
Keating maintains an office at 23 Old Kings Highway South. Her calendar includes client appointments, courtroom appearances and association activities across Connecticut and New York. She continues to take part in expert organizations and academic programs relevant to elder and estate matters. Her recent practice facilities on elder law and related estate and probate matters.
