Deborah J. Manus

Deb serves as trustee of a significant number of private trusts. She is also a principal of Nutter Investment Advisors, LLC, which provides investment advisory services to trusts, individuals, foundations and retirement plans.

Deb is active in many business and civic organizations, including:

• Boston Bar Association, past president (2021-2022)  

• Boston Bar Foundation, Trustee and member of the Society of Fellows

• The Nantucket Atheneum, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

• Boston Probate and Estate Planning Forum

• Massachusetts Women Forum
• Ad Hoc Committee on the Massachusetts Spousal Elective Share, formed by the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association and Women's Bar Association to reform the Massachusetts elective share statute. In 2014, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recognized Deb's critical role in bringing the bar associations to consensus on a bill to reform the state's current elective share statute (after eight years of work) by selecting her as a 2013 Lawyer of the Year.
• Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association, past president and board member
• New England Aquarium, Board of Overseers
• Cornell Law Association, former Executive Committee Member

Deb is also a frequent contributor to professional publications related to her practice area. She co-authored “Strategies for Paying the Estate Tax that is Due” in MCLE’s A Practical Guide to Estate Planning. She is also a contributing author of MCLE’s Massachusetts Probate Manual (Chapter 2, “Pre Probate Considerations”) and MCLE’s Massachusetts Basic Practice Manual (Chapter 4, “The Probate and Administration of Estates in Massachusetts”).