Marissa is an Associate in Wiggin and Dana’s Private Client Services Department, where she practices in the areas of trust and estate administration, estate and gift planning, and related services for individuals and families.  She has extensive experience in complex trust and estate administration, including probate proceedings, multi-generational trust administration proceedings, claims against estates, and judicial accounting matters.  Marissa also has significant experience in estate tax audits with the Internal Revenue Service, Connecticut Department of Revenue Services, and the New York Department of Taxation and Finance.

Before joining the firm, Marissa was a Trusts and Estates Associate at Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin and Lever LLP in New York, clerked for the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court, and worked as an estate administration paralegal in Connecticut.

Marissa earned her J.D. cum laude from Pace Law School in 2019. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Western Connecticut State University with a dual degree in Political Science and History in 2014.