Nikki Marie Sherwood

About Nikki Marie Sherwood

Nikki\'s practice focuses on estate and tax planning for high net worth clients, including trust and estate administration, serving as a trustee, probate, charitable planning with private foundations, and special needs planning. Clients rely on Nikki to draft sophisticated estate planning instruments, such as spousal lifetime access trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, life insurance trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, and charitable remainder trusts. She also represents her clients in court proceedings regarding trust issues as well as in probate matters, guardianships, and conservatorships. Nikki earned her LL.M. in Taxation from the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law; her J.D. from New England School of Law; and her B.S. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, from Roger Williams University. She is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Florida.Nikki is the author of \"Planning for Incapacity and Financing Long-term Care\"- Chapter 13 of Estate Planning Law and Taxation. Nikki previously served as a contributing author to the Elder Law Forms Manual by Attorney Harry Margolis from 20••••23.Nikki is currently a co-chair of the Boston Bar Association\'s Trusts & Estates Section and previously co-chaired the Estate Planning, Practice Fundamentals, Public Service, and Communications Committees. Nikki is also on the Board of Editors of the Boston Bar Journal. Nikki served on the Professional Advisors Network of The Boston Foundation from 20••••25, as chair, vice chair, and member. She is also a board member of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations and previously served on the Executive Board. Nikki is a Supporting Fellow of the Boston Bar Foundation and has held various leadership positions in the Boston Bar Foundation. Nikki is a member of the Boston Estate Planning Council and previously served as chair of the Roundtables Committee. She also serves as Treasurer of the Trusts & Estates Consortium.As a law student, she was a Comment and Note Editor for the New England Law Review; a Research Assistant for one of her professors, which involved researching and editing an article regarding trust law for publication; a Student Ambassador; and a member of Phi Alpha Delta. During college, she was President of Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity, a Student Ambassador, and a mathematics tutor.

Experience

1. Partner

   Nutter

   Jan 2023 — Present · Boston, MA, US

Education

• Roger Williams University

  B.S., Mathematics + Pre-Law

  2003 — 2007

• New England Law | Boston

  J.D., Law

  2007 — 2010

• Boston University School of Law

  LL.M., Taxation

  2010 — 2011