Melissa Langa

Biography

MELISSA LANGA is a lawyer with the Boston law firm of Bove Langa Witherell & Soiffer P.C. She has built her practice guiding domestic and international individuals, families, businesses, and charitable organizations in designing and implementing customized tax-efficient structures to meet their particular estate planning, business, and charitable needs. She also assists clients in the administration of the estate of a deceased family member and advises fiduciaries in the administration of estates and trusts. In addition of being an Adjunct Professor teaching estate planning in the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law, Attorney Langa is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Council (ACTEC) and Co-Founder of the local chapter of the London based international Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP Boston). She is a member of the Estate Planning Curriculum Advisory Committee for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) and a member of the International Practice Committee of Trusts & Estates Magazine. Attorney Langa is a member of the MBA Probate Law Section Council. She is also a past President of the Boston Estate Planning Council. Attorney Langa’s books include International Estate Planning (with Barbara Hauser) and The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts (with Alexander A. Bove Jr.). She has lectured around the country on trust and estate issues, including at the University of Miami’s Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning and the Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute. In addition to her professional activities, Ms. Langa is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Massachusetts Bar Foundation and serves on its Executive Committee as Vice President. And yes, there is still time to be a wife, mother, and grandmother and to play golf, tennis (badly), tap dance the night away, and attempt to learn to play the recorder (Hot Cross Buns, anyone?)