The focus of our practice is to protect and strengthen individuals, families, and nonprofit organizations, by equipping them to manage personal, financial, and legal risk.  We love what we do and take pride in doing it well.

David W. Adams, Esq.

David has been providing estate planning counsel for the past eight years.  David’s focus is on estate planning, estate administration, federal and state estate tax work, and serving as trustee.  While he enjoys the technical aspect of estate planning, it is working with his clients, their families, and the often messiness that life and relationships bring (and the associated challenges and opportunities) that he finds most rewarding.  

David’s practice also includes serving as legal counsel to many nonprofit and religious organizations.  In this role, he advises boards and management on formation and exempt issues, risk management, and endowment matters.  David is the founder of RiskManager.net, which provides on-line risk management and training resources to nonprofit and health and human service organizations across the country.

David is a graduate of Harvard College and Northeastern University School of Law. During law school he clerked for the Honorable Patti Saris and the Honorable Walter Skinner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and is a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates section. 

David is a soccer enthusiast and enjoys his role as U.S. history instructor for his two teenage children who are partly homeschooled as they pursue their various passions. 

Tamara Lauterbach Sturges, Esq.

Tamara Lauterbach Sturges is an associate at the Law Office of David W. Adams, LLC. Tamara focuses her practice on estate planning matters, including gift and estate tax planning. She also provides council and assistance to executors and administrators in the probate of estates.

Tamara enjoys designing plans for clients that are both tax efficient and accomplish the client’s goals and wishes.

Tamara graduated from Brandeis University with a Bachelors of Arts in both Politics and African/Afro-American Studies and obtained her Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law. During law school she clerked for Associate Justice Scott L. Kafker of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She also interned at the Office of the Attorney General of New York in the Charities Bureau. Prior to attending law school Tamara worked in the Family Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services working with survivors of domestic violence and she worked at the Victim Rights Law Center. Tamara is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts.

Tamara is member of the Boston Bar Association and is on the Steering Committee of the New Lawyers Section and is the liaison to the Trusts and Estates Section Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Trusts and Estates Consortium and a pending member of the Boston Estate Planning Council.