Nancy Burner, Esq.

Nancy Burner is Founder and Partner of Burner Prudenti Law, (successor firm to Burner Law Group P.C.) a women-owned trust & estates and elder law firm established in 1995. She is also a Founding Member of Mediation Solutions of NY, Suffolk County’s first full-service mediation and arbitration company.

With nearly three decades of experience, Nancy has been recognized as one of New York’s prominent elder law and trust & estates attorneys. She holds the designation of a Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA), awarded by the National Elder Law Foundation as accredited by the American Bar Association. Since 2014, Nancy has been selected by her peers to be included in Best Lawyers in America for Elder Law. Most recently, she was recognized as the Best Lawyers® 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” for Elder Law on Long Island. Nancy previously earned this honor in 2023 and 2020. 

For seventeen consecutive years, Nancy has been named as a Super Lawyer in the field of Elder Law. In the same publication, for five consecutive years, she has also been named a Top 50 Women Attorney in New York. 

Nancy is a former five term trustee for the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, a state administered agency which was created in 1981 to protect law clients from the misuse of their money by dishonest attorneys and to promote public confidence in the administration of justice in New York State. She is also a past president of the Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association and a past co-chair of the Suffolk County Elder Law Committee.

In 2022, Nancy was inducted into the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University’s Inaugural Hall of Fame as one of only 50 inductees. Hofstra Law established the Hall of Fame to honor alumni whose exemplary careers, or extraordinary service to the betterment of society, or outstanding contributions to the Law School have significantly impacted the Hofstra Law community and beyond. 

Nancy earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Stony Brook University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She graduated in the top 2% of her class, with distinction, from Hofstra University School of Law with her Juris Doctor in 1988. In 2011, Nancy returned to her alma mater as an Adjunct Professor, where she created the first law school course in Elder Law.  Nancy frequently lectures on estate planning, tax planning, and governmental benefits affecting the elderly and special needs population.

• Hofstra University School of Law
• Stony Brook University

• New York State Bar Association, Elder Law and Special Needs section
• Suffolk County Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• National Association of Estate Planners & Councils
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc.
• Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York
• National Elder Law Foundation
• Estate Planning Council of Suffolk
• Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn

• Founding Member of Mediation Solutions of NY, 2023
• Adjunct Professor, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law, 2011

• Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection: Chair 2002 – 2005
• Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association: Past President, 1996-1997
• Suffolk County Elder Law Committee: Past Co-Chair

• Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA)
• Power Women of the East End, Dan’s Papers, 2023
• Best Lawyers in America® for Elder Law, 2014 – present
• Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for Elder Law on Long Island, 2025, 2023, and 2020
• Inducted to Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law Inaugural Hall of Fame, 2022
• PowerList of the East End, Dan’s Papers, 2021
• Power Women of Long Island, Dan’s Papers, 2020
• “Outstanding Woman in Law” by Hofstra University School of Law Center for Children Families and the Law, 2016
• Manhattan Magazine Big Apple Entrepreneur winner, 2016
• Super Lawyers, 2007, 2009 – 2024
• NY Women Leaders in the Law, New York Magazine, 2015
• Top 50 Women in Business, Long Island Business News, 2017
• 2021 Woman Leader, New York Law Journal, 2021

Board Member, ALS Ride for Life, 2020 – Present