Nancy Burner, Esq.

Nancy Burner is the Founding Partner of Burner Prudenti Law, the successor to Burner Law Group P.C., a women-owned trust & estates and elder law firm she established in 1995. A Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA) accredited by the American Bar Association, she has nearly three decades of experience and is recognized among New York’s leading elder law and estate attorneys. Since 2014 peers have included her in Best Lawyers in America; she was named Best Lawyers® 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” for Elder Law on Long Island and previously earned that distinction in 2023 and 2020. For seventeen consecutive years she has been listed as a Super Lawyer in Elder Law and for five consecutive years was named a Top 50 Women Attorney in New York. A five-term trustee of the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, Nancy is a former president of the Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association and past co-chair of the Suffolk County Elder Law Committee. Inducted into Hofstra Law’s inaugural Hall of Fame in 2022, she holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Stony Brook (1985) and a J.D., with distinction (top 2%), from Hofstra (1988). In 2011 she returned to Hofstra as an adjunct professor and created its first Elder Law course; she regularly lectures on estate, tax, and benefits planning for elders and individuals with special needs.