About Patricia

Patricia M. Annino has been educating, inspiring and empowering women on wealth and legacy for over 30 years.

She educates and empowers women to value themselves and their contributions in order to ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS in the world- and in so doing PROTECT THEMSELVES, those they love and the organizations they care about.

Law Practice

Patricia M. Annino is a partner in Rimon’s Trust and Estates Group. A nationally recognized authority on estate planning and taxation, Ms. Annino has more than 30 years of experience serving the diverse needs of families, individuals, and owners of closely-held businesses.

Ms. Annino’s practice includes all aspects of private client work, including estate planning; will and trust planning; incapacity planning; prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; estate litigation; advising executors, trustees and beneficiaries and administration of estates and trusts.  

Author

Patricia’s most recent book, Power, Strength and Perseverance: What Women Know About Each Other But Search for in Themselves is both a compendium of historical data on women’s powerful accomplishments through the ages and a how-to lesson on employing instinctive female strengths in today’s workforce, culture and society.

Patricia has written five consumer books: “Women & Money, A Practical Guide to Estate Planning”, (listed as recommended reading in the Wall Street Journal), “It’s More Than Money: Protect Your Legacy”, Cracking the $$ Code: What Successful Men Know and You Don’t (Yet), and “Women in Family Business: What Keeps You up at Night?”.

Patricia has been quoted extensively in a wide variety of local and national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, MarketWatch, Investors.com, and Women’s Business Journal.

Speaker Engagements

Patrica travels extensively, addressing audiences on topics including, “Hold On to Your Purse Strings: Savvy Estate Planning for Women Today”, “The Estate Planning Secret Women Do Not (But Need To) Know” and many more.

She has presented more than 250 keynote speeches, workshops and panel discussions to professional advisors who want to understand more about the power of the “double inheritor baby boomer woman”, charitable organizations (including donor presentations and trustee retreats), and women of all ages and stages of life. She has been interviewed on Bloomberg Television and FOX Business.

Awards

  • Ultra-High Net Worth Private Wealth Law, Chambers and Partners, 2019-present

  • Euromoney's Women in Business Law Expert Guide, Euromoney Magazine, 2012-present

  • Top 50 Women Massachusetts Lawyer, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters Corporation), 2009-2012, 2017-20

  • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated Fellow (Estate Planning, Probate Law), Martindale Hubbell, 1995- present

  • FFI GEN Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising (Family Firm Institute), 2020

  • Expert in the field of Trusts and Estates, Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, 2010-present

  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (BL Rankings LLC), New England’s Best Lawyers, and Boston’s Best Lawyers in the field of Trusts and Estates, 2008-present

  • Massachusetts Super Lawyer in Estate Planning & Probate, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters Corporation), 2004-present:

  • Top Women in Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (New Media Investment Group, Dolan Media Company), 2013

  • Best in Wealth Management USA, Euromoney Magazine, 2012

  • Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, Suffolk University Law School, 2009

  • “Estate Planner of the Year”, Boston Estate Planning Council, 2007

  • Distinguished Alumnae Award, Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1989

Background and Education

A Boston native, Patricia is a graduate of Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Smith College, Suffolk University School of Law and the Boston University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program.

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“You hold the power. Understand what your risks are, pick up the keys to the kingdom and take that first step.”

- Patricia M. Annino