LAWYER DIRECTORY

NANCY E. DEMPZE

DIRECT DIAL: 617-557-9726
E-MAIL: ndempze@hembar.com

NANCY E. DEMPZE works with clients to develop and implement tax efficient wealth-transfer strategies for valuable land holdings, family businesses, concentrated stock positions, private equity and hedge fund interests, art and collectibles, and other assets in ways that are consistent with the client’s overall goals and values.   Her practice includes sophisticated estate planning, prenuptial agreements, charitable planning, estate administration, trust administration, land conservation, and planning for incapacitated and special needs clients. 

Ms. Dempze is a Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America and as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer.  Ms. Dempze has given presentations on estate planning and charitable giving for the Federal Tax Institute, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association, the EPA, AnswerThink, Inc., Episcopal Divinity School and Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.  She is the author of a chapter on taxation law and conservation gifts in the MCLE publication Massachusetts Environmental Law and the chapter on charitable giving in the textbook Practical Estate Planning.  She also served as the writer, co-producer and speaker for a cable TV program on estate planning sponsored by the Women’s Bar Association and Media One. 

Ms. Dempze’s charitable work includes: serving as an Overseer of the Museum of Science, Boston, and a member of its Planned Giving and Environmental Sustainability and Green Building Committees;   as a Trustee of Old Sturbridge Village; and on the Noble and Greenough School Annual Fund Leadership Committee.  Ms. Dempze is Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association Trust and Estates Section and a past Co-Chair of its Estate Planning and New Developments Committees.  Ms. Dempze is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Boston Probate and Estate Planning Forum and a former Moderator and Program Chair.

Ms. Dempze is active in her community of Westwood.  She is the President of the Westwood Land Trust and works with landowners and their advisors to develop conservation easement donations that promote conservation goals, provide tax benefits, and preserve the landowner’s rights consistent with conservation goals.  Ms. Dempze served as a Director and Clerk of the Westwood Educational Foundation for several years.