After eight years of experience as an associate in the Trusts and Estates Departments of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, Susan Taxin Baer continues to offer estate planning and other individualized services for clients and is now available to assist attorneys on a "co-counsel" or "of counsel" basis.

Susan Taxin Baer, formerly associated with the New York law firms of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Proskauer Rose in their Trusts & Estates Departments, opened her own practice in 1993, with offices in White Plains and New York City. Sue concentrates in estate planning, probate, trust and estate administration, charitable giving, and elder law. She has also served as an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1960, her M.B.A. from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1974, and her J.D. from Pace University School of Law in 1985. Prior to attending law school, she was Assistant Vice President at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in charge of Marketing for the Trust Division.

Sue is a frequent lecturer and has authored articles on estate planning topics. She is a member of the Elder Law and Trusts & Estates sections of the New York State Bar Association. She is also a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law section of the American Bar Association Committee on Lifetime Transfers: Transfer Tax Issues; and serves as Chair of its Committee on Postmortem Income Tax Planning. Sue is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and its Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation, the Westchester Bar Association and its Trusts and Estates section, the Westchester Women’s Bar Association chairing its Foundation Committee, and the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, and is the immediate past co-Chair of its Estates & Trusts Committee. Sue also serves as Chair of Pace University’s Planned Giving Advisory Board, and sits on the board of the Alumni Association of the University’s School of Law.

She is a Vice President of the New York Metropolitan Council of American Jewish Congress, a co-Chair of its Commission on Law and Social Action, a member of the organization’s national Commisson on Law and Social Action, as well as an immediate past national vice president, and a former President of its Westchester Division. Sue also serves on the Board of the Westchester Jewish Conference, the Executive Board of the Benjamin N. Cardozo Society of UJA-Federation, and on the Planned Giving Committee of the Hudson Valley Branch of the Arthritis Foundation.