Tully Law Group, PC

Focus and practice areas

The firm works in elder care law and estate planning, and it runs two offices on Long Island, one in Melville and one in Northport. Clients come from across Long Island and the wider New York City area. The stated services cover Elder Law, Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills, Powers of Attorney, Medicaid eligibility, Probate, Guardianship, and Asset Protection.

That list points to one client group: older adults and the families who plan alongside them. Estate planning here means the documents that decide who receives property and who makes decisions when someone cannot act. The firm pairs that with Medicaid eligibility and asset protection, since long-term care costs often shape the plan.

Planning documents

Trusts and wills are the core documents in estate planning. A will directs how assets pass after death and names an executor to carry it out. A trust holds assets under set terms, and families often use one to manage property or to prepare for care costs.

A power of attorney lets one person act for another in financial matters. It needs signing while the person still has capacity, so timing matters in elder law. Powers of attorney are on the firm's service list, and they fit its planning work.

Court and after-death matters

Probate is the court process that confirms a will and appoints someone to settle an estate. In New York it runs through the Surrogate's Court, and it covers debts, taxes, and the transfer of assets to heirs. Estate administration is the work that follows: gathering assets, paying what is owed, and distributing the rest.

Guardianship applies when an adult can no longer manage personal or financial affairs and no valid power of attorney is in place. A court reviews the person's condition and names a guardian with set authority. In my opinion, the range of tools shows a firm that handles both the planning done in advance and the court work that can follow.

The Life Care Planning model

The firm states it was the first Long Island elder law firm to integrate the Life Care Planning model. This approach combines asset protection, Medicaid planning, and care coordination in a single service. The team includes elder care coordinators alongside attorneys and paralegals.

Care coordination covers the practical side of aging, such as finding care settings and managing benefits. The model links that help to the legal drafting. As a reviewer, I read this as the feature the firm most wants to be known for, since the site frames it as a first on Long Island.

Medicaid planning deals with the rules that decide who qualifies for long-term care coverage in New York. The program measures income and assets, and it reviews certain transfers made before an application. Asset protection works within those rules to keep more of a family's resources, and it ties back to the estate plan.

How the team is built

Brian Andrew Tully founded Tully Law Group and is its managing partner. He has practiced elder care law and estate planning since 1998. The National Elder Law Foundation certified him as an Elder Law Attorney in 2003, and he has held that certification since.

The firm names seven more attorneys, each with a defined title. Amy N. Latuga is a partner and Director of Planning. Dennis McCoy is a partner and Director of Medicaid. Tony Farina is a partner.

Leigh-Anne Amore is a senior associate attorney and Director of Estate and Trust Administration. Rebbeccah Flohr and Kristi DiPaolo are senior associate attorneys, and Erin Michel is an associate attorney. The titles line up with the firm's main areas, with named leads for planning, Medicaid, and estate administration.

The Give Back Benefit

The firm runs a program it calls the Give Back Benefit. It offers reduced fees to retired and active-duty members of the military, police, fire services, and EMS. The offer applies to people who have worked in public safety and service roles.

This kind of program sets a defined discount for a named group. As a reviewer, I note it because it is a concrete commitment the firm puts in writing. It connects to the elder law focus, since older veterans and their spouses are common clients in that work.

What the record shows

The firm publishes its practice areas, its two office locations, and a full roster of named attorneys with titles. It lists social profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. The site does not state a firm founding year, though it dates Brian Tully's practice to 1998.

The clearest markers on the firm's pages are the founder's elder law certification, the Life Care Planning model, and a team of eight named attorneys. Each one comes straight from the firm's own site. The firm's work stays centered on aging, estates, and the care and money questions that come with them.

The Melville office

The firm's principal address is 532 Broadhollow Road in Melville, a community in Suffolk County on Long Island. Broadhollow Road is a commercial corridor in the county, and the address gives the practice a fixed base near the families it plans for.

The firm lists three phone lines, all on the 631 area code that covers Suffolk County: (631) 424-2800, (631) 271-9804, and (631) 856-2302. The website runs at tullyelderlaw.com, a name that states the elder law focus on its own, before a visitor opens a single page.

Where the attorneys trained

Several of the firm's attorneys share a law school. Brian Tully earned his degree from Touro Law Center in 1997. Dennis McCoy holds a Juris Doctor from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, which is the same school under its full name, granted in 2004. Kristi DiPaolo also studied at Touro Law Center. That school sits in Central Islip on Long Island, so this part of the roster trained in the region where the firm now works.

The listed focus areas branch out from the shared elder law core. Brian Tully's own practice includes health care directives, the documents that record a patient's medical wishes and name who can act on them. Dennis McCoy brings a real estate focus to the firm's Medicaid work. A family home is often the main asset in a Medicaid case, so a lawyer who knows real estate has a clear use on that team. Kristi DiPaolo belongs to the National Aging in Place Council and has authored a publication in The Suffolk Lawyer. The name of that group points to helping older adults stay in their own homes as they age, and that fits the firm's care work. Leigh-Anne Amore's work centers on estate planning and probate within the same elder law field, which matches her role over estate and trust administration.