About Lisa Nachmias
Lisa Nachmias Davis earned her B.A. in history from Yale University in 1982 and completed her J.D. at Yale Law School in 1990. She began her legal career immediately after law school, taking a clerkship with Justice David M. Shea of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1990. The clerkship provided early exposure to appellate decision-making and state court procedure.
She moved into private practice after her clerkship. In 1991 she joined Robinson & Cole as an associate. Over the next decade she worked at several Connecticut firms as an associate, including Sachs, Berman & Shure and Sklarz & Gallant, followed by Cummings & Lockwood. In 1998 she became an associate at Tyler Cooper & Alcorn and later rose to partner there in 2004. In 2006 she opened her own practice, Lisa Nachmias Davis Lawyer at Law. Records also note an association with Davis O'Sullivan & Priest LLC in 2009.
Throughout her career Davis has developed a specialization in matters affecting older adults and their families. She is a certified Elder Law Lawyer through the National Elder Law Foundation, a credential that reflects additional training and peer review in the field. Her professional memberships align with that specialty. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association Elder Law Section and has been a member of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Lawyers since joining its board of directors in 2012. She has also belonged to the national academy since 1996 and has been active in the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section since 1998.
Her involvement in estate and probate work is longstanding. Davis has been a member of the Connecticut State Bar Association Estates and Probate Section since 1991. The combination of that membership and her elder law certification underpins a practice that addresses estate planning, probate administration and related issues that commonly arise as clients age.
Colleagues describe Davis as methodical and steady in the way she handles legal details. Clients seeking help with planning for incapacity, navigating probate, or arranging care-related finances will find that her background includes both courtroom exposure and years of transactional work. She is licensed to practice in Connecticut and maintains her office as owner of Lisa Nachmias Davis Lawyer at Law, where she concentrates on elder law and estate planning matters.
