About Benjamin Siracusa
Benjamin Siracusa Hillman built a legal path that began in classrooms and moved quickly into courtrooms. He earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 2003 and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008. Those credentials opened doors to federal clerkships and public interest work early in his career.
After law school, Hillman served as a law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in 2008. He spent the following year clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 2010 he was named a William J. Brennan Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, a role that placed him in the center of civil liberties litigation and policy work. He joined Shaheen & Gordon, P.A. as an associate in 2011 and became a partner there in 2016.
Hillman’s admissions reflect a mix of state and federal practice. He is admitted in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, and he holds admissions in multiple federal venues, including the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is also admitted to practice before the 1st, 9th and 10th U.S. Courts of Appeals. That range of admissions allows him to handle matters in trial courts and on appeal.
His practice draws on both private and public interest experience. He handles trust and estate matters, elder law issues and related litigation. He also brings experience from his ACLU fellowship to constitutional and civil liberties questions when they arise in his work. Colleagues note the combination of appellate experience, federal courtroom exposure and state probate practice in his approach to complex client problems.
At Shaheen & Gordon, Hillman’s role has included counseling families on estate planning, representing clients in probate and guardianship proceedings, and pursuing litigation in state and federal courts. He has worked on appellate briefs and argued matters in higher courts as part of cases that required multi-jurisdictional handling.
Outside the office, Hillman is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel and serves on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire. He previously served on the boards of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society. He has been a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association since 2012. He practices at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., where his work focuses on trusts and estates, elder law and related litigation.
