About Us
About Us - Beyond Law
Beyond Law offers estates and trust planning that goes beyond the legal documents to create a circle of service to meet your needs. We work with you to build a plan, and then we build a network to put that plan into action. We value clear and forthright communication, accessible and modern ways of working together, and comfortable and personal service.
About You - Our Client
You realize you’re at the point in your life where you have to get serious about the end of your life. Maybe it still feels a long way away, maybe it feels more urgent…but you’ve seen enough to know that not having your affairs in order can cause big problems for the people you love. You’re a busy professional and you prioritize your time for family, work and friends – not paperwork. You embrace technology for transactions, but you value personal connection and service. Maybe you’re going it on your own; maybe you have a partner. Either way, your life is full and you value making things easy and clear for the people in your life without compromising quality and expertise. You could use a team around you to help make responsibilities easier (we all could!), but you don’t exactly know how to build that team or what makes the most sense for your situation.
About - Anne Sullivan, ESQ.
Beyond Law, LLC, was established in 2021 by Anne Sullivan, Esq. After 15 years as an Of Counsel attorney at Handler & Levine, LLC, Anne opened Beyond Law to focus on what she is most passionate about: helping people have the real and necessary conversations about death and disability, then leveraging her network and legal expertise to help them put plans into action.
Anne Sullivan is an attorney with the law firm Handler & Levine, LLC in Bethesda, Maryland, focusing her practice in Estate Planning and Trust and Estate Administration. Ms. Sullivan practices extensively in the area of estate and wealth preservation planning where she tailors estate plans for individuals and couples to meet their personal goals. Ms. Sullivan also advises trustees and executors and helps them navigate the estate and trust administration process. For over ten years, Ms. Sullivan has been a speaker in the area of trust and estate planning with the National Institute of Transition Planning.
As a speaker for the National Institute of Transition Planning for the last 14 years, she’s given countless seminars to federal employees on trust and estate planning. And she started noticing a trend in the questions asked. People might understand the generic basics of estate planning, but they don’t always know where to start or how to make sure they are ready for their unique future.
Anne practices extensively in the area of estate and wealth preservation planning where she tailors estate plans for individuals and couples to meet their personal goals.
Prior to joining Handler & Levine, LLC in 2006, Ms. Sullivan was in private federal practice for six years. She began her legal career twenty-three years ago by serving as Law Clerk to the Honorable Patrick L. Woodward of the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville, Maryland.
Anne is a member of the Maryland State Bar, DC Bar and Virginia State Bar. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Guilford College in North Carolina and her Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Baltimore School of Law. She was twice named in Super Lawyer Magazine as a Rising Star in the field of Estates and Trusts. Ms. Sullivan grew up in Montgomery County and attended high school at Sandy Spring Friends School in Olney, Maryland. She resides in Maryland with her husband and two children.