Family Law

• Adoption
• Guardianship
  With a practice split among complex trust and estate litigation, service as a trustee and conservator, and sophisticated high-asset family law matters and family business disputes, Cukier is considered one of the most tactical, strategic, and passionate attorneys in her field. She also has a niche practice representing clients in matters involving diminished capacity such as undue influence, financial exploitation controversies, and guardianship and conservatorship intervention matters.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Caulfield is a founding member of Rubin and Rudman’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. She was named to Boston Magazine’s list of “Top Lawyers” for Corporate Law for the past two consecutive years and was selected as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2024.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Disputes

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
  Caulfield focuses her practice on corporate, banking and financial law, and complex civil and business matters. She represents clients in sophisticated corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financing transactions. In addition, she is experienced in commercial real estate, including drafting and negotiating commercial leases and purchase and sales agreements. Prior to joining Rubin and Rudman, she was an associate at a regional Boston law firm, where she obtained in-depth experience in commercial real estate transactions. Before that, she was an in-house lawyer with the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic where she handled a range of legal issues including banking and financial, transactional, corporate, real estate, and employment matters, and participated in several projects yielding to banking and financial regulations.
• Land Use and Zoning

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Before joining Rubin and Rudman, Dean was an associate at Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, PC, where she concentrated on trust and estate matters. She earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2015 and graduated
• Trusts
  Rubin and Rudman is pleased to announce that Lisa Cukier, a partner in the firm’s Family Law, Litigation, and Trusts and Estates departments, was named to

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law
  Dean specializes in working closely with high-net-worth individuals and families to structure comprehensive estate plans, utilizing advanced strategies such as irrevocable life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, and spousal lifetime access trusts. Her expertise also includes preparing federal and Massachusetts estate tax returns, federal gift and generation-skipping transfer tax returns, and conducting research on domestic and international tax law matters, particularly in areas focused on minimizing or eliminating federal and state transfer taxes.